I was on win ver 1908 and updated to latest version. I know that there was an update in 20h2 that changed policies and management of network drives and this rendered all network drives unconnectable. Back about a year's ago I used to use a script to restore the connection. I can't find the script for the life of me and the drives and previously used network locations show up but Windows just gives an error saying that the network location cannot be found.
Edit : my main rig: R7 5800x, 16 gb ddr4, rtx 3070, b550a strix.
As mentioned before I was running windows 10 ver 1908 and didn't update for quite a while for "high seas" reasons.
I updated to the latest build, 2h22 and now I'm getting Error Code 0x80070035. The error code is for missing network locations but the locations and drives are right there! Windows just refuses to connect to the drives or other local network pc's.
Nothing changed on the network or hardware wise, just 1 router with 2 usb drives used as a NAS and a secondary pc with a 12tb drive that I use as a file server and plex server.
The bug is definitely linked to some policy changes made by M$ on how it handles mapped drives. The thing is, this started with update 20h2 (I know because I used to work in IT support and we were swarmed with tickets with this issue). We used to use the "netuse" command to identify the affected drives and then another command that restored connectivity. We even had a powershell script for it that automated this but I can't find it.
Now here are some steps I tried and sadly didn't work. I'm really stumped... I deleted the mapped drives except the one from my nvidia shield internal that oddly seems to keep working. I wanted to re-map the problematic drives but was greeted by the above mentioned error code and thus here I am..lol
Edit : my main rig: R7 5800x, 16 gb ddr4, rtx 3070, b550a strix.
As mentioned before I was running windows 10 ver 1908 and didn't update for quite a while for "high seas" reasons.
I updated to the latest build, 2h22 and now I'm getting Error Code 0x80070035. The error code is for missing network locations but the locations and drives are right there! Windows just refuses to connect to the drives or other local network pc's.
Nothing changed on the network or hardware wise, just 1 router with 2 usb drives used as a NAS and a secondary pc with a 12tb drive that I use as a file server and plex server.
The bug is definitely linked to some policy changes made by M$ on how it handles mapped drives. The thing is, this started with update 20h2 (I know because I used to work in IT support and we were swarmed with tickets with this issue). We used to use the "netuse" command to identify the affected drives and then another command that restored connectivity. We even had a powershell script for it that automated this but I can't find it.
Now here are some steps I tried and sadly didn't work. I'm really stumped... I deleted the mapped drives except the one from my nvidia shield internal that oddly seems to keep working. I wanted to re-map the problematic drives but was greeted by the above mentioned error code and thus here I am..lol
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