Background:
On an almost freshly installed pc I get a message along the lines of : "windows cannot find some-file-server-name. Check the spelling and try again"… when trying to access any fileshare.
Troubleshooting so far:
- pinging works. Both by ip and by name
- the almost identical pc next to this one can access the file server
- everyone else can access the file server
- the pc in question can not access other open fileshares
- but it can connect to the internet
And now for what I think is the interesting part:
- running wireshark with ip.addr == local.ip.add.ress and ip.addr == server.ip.add.ress tells me that it tries to connect over http.
- the server replies but after a few messages back and forth it stops
- the other machine of course just uses smb
I guess port 80 just means it defaults to webdav, but I haven't been able to find anything that can cause this.
Googling it the closest thing I found was this http://www.techrepublic.com/article/get-vista-and-samba-to-work/6353849 but then again this was an XP pc and I wasn't able to connect to other native Windows shares (and I tried the solution anyway and it didn't work.)
Best Answer
If you believe it is WebDAV, have you tried disabling WebDAV client?
Services.msc -> webclient -> Stop/Disable
Also it's never a bad idea to use Process Monitor from SysInternals to see whats going on behind the scenes when something isnt performing as expected.