Cannot access Windows shares
Hi Experts,
I have a Win 7 Pro computer that I named Optiplex, with 2 physical hard drives - C: and D:. D: being my main Data drive.
From this setup, for many years I'm sharing 4 printers, 5 folders from D: and 2 folders from C:.
All of the sudden, I cannot access none of the shares. When I go to \\Optiplex I see all my shares, but when I double-click on any folder I get an error Windows cannot access \\optiplex\folder - under details The network path was not found. This also happens when I try to navigate from the Optiplex itself. However, I am able to navigate directly through D:\folder\another_folder.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
I have a Win 7 Pro computer that I named Optiplex, with 2 physical hard drives - C: and D:. D: being my main Data drive.
From this setup, for many years I'm sharing 4 printers, 5 folders from D: and 2 folders from C:.
All of the sudden, I cannot access none of the shares. When I go to \\Optiplex I see all my shares, but when I double-click on any folder I get an error Windows cannot access \\optiplex\folder - under details The network path was not found. This also happens when I try to navigate from the Optiplex itself. However, I am able to navigate directly through D:\folder\another_folder.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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I agree with Lee, as the likely problem. But in case a DNS error, can you access using the IP, such as \\192.168.123.123\ShareNam
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It was my Avast Firewall
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https://www.experts-exchange.com/articles/16639/Folder-sharing-on-modern-machines.html
If the user names are different on the machines, you may have to put the user name of B onto machine A and restart.
Make sure (in the article above) that both machines are using passwords.
Restart after all the changes have been made.