Network Error “Windows Cannot Access \\ Shared Drive”

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  1. Mr.X

    Mr.X MDL Guru

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    #21 Mr.X, Jul 20, 2021
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    :tooth:

    Funnily I was thinking of you as they announcing, threatening, imposing a new lockdown...
    In a few more hours, I'm heading to the beach. I live two km away, with family, sandwiches quite happy to get sunshine once again like last week!
    Good luck with your new "normalcy" :eek::D
     
  2. Mr.X

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    Anyway I'd like to know how that affects network shares. Let's assume l installed an untouched Windows 7 SP1 pro zero updates.
     
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    #23 acer-5100, Jul 20, 2021
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    Aside that SMB is a continuously moving target, because security additions, different defaults and so on (so the lack of updates can affect surely the access on newer OSes), you didn't have a SMB problem you had a DNS problem and is hard to say what problem it was, given all the test we did, and w/o having access to your logs and your machine.
     
  4. Mr.X

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  5. acer-5100

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    Let me guess, one of your machine OS is HOME EDITION ? :eek:

    That's a well known problem when HOME machines are mixed with Pro/Ent....

    We would have fixed that in 20 seconds if you mentioned that.
     
  6. Mr.X

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    Well known?
    I didn't know the existence of such issue.
    I'm not seeing that problem announced when I launch my chrome browser with google home page or in a Walmart's sales newspaper...
     
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    #28 acer-5100, Jul 19, 2022
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    So that's strange, but clearly for somewhat reason one of the OS started to behave like a Home one, switching to the so called by Microsoft "simplified networking".
    Everything is relative, nowadays the average "apple like" user uses a thumb-drive or a cloud drive, or even a remoting sw, rather than learn how the LAN works.

    But in the early days of XP sharing a file between a professional and a home PC required a degree (in MS stupidity) + some voodoo rituals + a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela + something I forgot :D
     
  8. Carlos Detweiller

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