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Has anyone had any troubles with new updates breaking Windows 7 file shares lately? We’ve got an environment running several XP Pro machines which access a file share on a Windows 7 Pro machine. Over night it just stopped working. Networking and permissions have all stayed the same. Other services still work from the XP machines to the 7 machine (SQL Express) but the file sharing is completely broken. I get the “The network path was not found” error when trying to connect to it manually. I’ve even tried disabling the windows firewall completely thinking it might have been a firewall issue. Still no luck. I did notice that there were about 15 updates installed today, right now I feel it’s got to be one of those.

Any other ideas?

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Does this solve the problem? (from User Account Control and remote restrictions - Windows Server | Microsoft Learn )

  1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then press ENTER.
  2. Locate and then click the following registry subkey:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
  3. If the LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy registry entry does not exist, follow these steps:
    1. On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
    2. Type LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy, and then press ENTER.
  4. Right-click LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy, and then click Modify.
  5. In the Value data box, type 1, and then click OK.
  6. Exit Registry Editor.
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Nope, still not accessible.

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Check the Windows 7 box and make sure the network type is setup to Work and not Public.

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Chris Hoeschen wrote:

Check the Windows 7 box and make sure the network type is setup to Work and not Public.

Weird. Had that happen recently: Win7 spontaneously switch a work computer to public. Resolution to get it properly back on the AD domain was unpleasant.

Will need to look more into this.

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Yeah, it doesn’t exactly fill me with “warm fuzzies” if Win 7 is going to start changing settings whenever it feels like it.