Windows 7 loses access to network drives

Posted by dubRun on Super User See other posts from Super User or by dubRun
Published on 2009-10-14T17:22:47Z Indexed on 2010/04/09 11:23 UTC
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Ok this is an odd one, but is happening often enough its getting quite annoying.

I recently installed Windows 7 on my work computer (about 2 months ago) and every so often I lose access to network shares on our work network.

Its one server in particular - other shares are still working fine.

I have a number of folders mapped as a drive, and all of the ones on a particular file server have lost access. If I try to access the machine directly (\fileserver\d$) it doesn't work either with this message:

Windows cannot access \fileserver\d$. You do not have permission to access \fileserver\d$. Contact your network administrator to request access

Once I reboot the computer, access is restored like it should be. The computers are all on a domain and my user has administrator level access to the server in question.

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