Network Connection to Shared Drive No Longer Working

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At our company we have a Windows 7 computer that has a shared drive. Everyone in the company has access to it. Last week I lost access to this shared drive.


When I click on the mapped drive I get the message, "An error occurred while connecting to S: to \\server name\shared folder name. Microsoft Windows Network: The handle is invalid."


I am the only one that has this issue; everyone else still has access. I have tried to access it by the name and IP address, but I get the message, "Windows cannot access \\server name\ Check the spelling of the name. Otherwise, there might be a problem with your network."


I still have access to other shared drives within our network. One thing that I see is, when I open "Network" in windows explorer, I only see PC's I don't see any of my servers. I have to access the servers by server name or IP address.


I even did a system restore to before the last round of Windows Updates, but that didn't help either.


Does anyone have any ideas of what I can try to regain access to this shared drive.


Thank you for your help!!!


Scott Christopher

IT Manager

Struthers-Dunn LLC

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