Cannot execute "composer.phar install" from a mapped network drive

[masire...@gmail.com]

Hi guys,

Hope someone can help.

I have my Laravel code in a directory on a mapped network drive of my machine.

And when I run the command in CMD "php composer.phar install" to install required libraries for my project, I have following error:

PHP Warning:  Phar::mapPhar(composer.phar): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in composer.phar on line 23

Warning: Phar::mapPhar(composer.phar): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in composer.phar on line 23

PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught PharException: unable to open phar for reading "composer.phar" in composer.phar:23

Stack trace:

#0 composer.phar(23): Phar::mapPhar('composer.phar')

#1 {main}

  thrown in composer.phar on line 23

Fatal error: Uncaught PharException: unable to open phar for reading "composer.phar" in composer.phar:23

Stack trace:

#0 composer.phar(23): Phar::mapPhar('composer.phar')

#1 {main}

  thrown in composer.phar on line 23

I have a machine running on Windows 10.

I'm using PHP 7.3.3 and Composer 1.8.5.

Thanks for your help.

Regards,

Masiré