I've run into a bit of an odd issue, one of the netbooks we've been working on seems to be having an issue with network paths. The machine is running Windows 7 Starter. If I try to run the following:
\\server\fd
I am greeted with an error:
0x80070035 Network path not found.
However if I type:
\\server\fd\
Everything is fine and the share opens as expected. (Note trailing backslash)
Any ideas what might be causing this to happen?
Best Answer
An old post, but I will post my findings here as a reference for others experiencing this problem.
I have found two possible causes for this:
One is described in http://forum.sysinternals.com/curious-windows-7-issue-connecting-to-unc_topic25113.html and has to do with the registry settings
The above should be the correct setting.
The other cause I found by comparing a broken and working pc in our environement. Working pc's had the registry setting
setting these (and more specificly DirectoryCacheLifetime) fixed the problem on a machine not working before.