Issues connecting to network shares from Win10 Pro

[MA_Errico]

In the last month one of our pcs (Win10 Pro) is facing a strange issue to connect to network shares on one single server.

In the morning, after booting, the pc is able to re-connect to network shares on two other servers and it fails to reconnect to the shares on "SERVER_A".

Opening a command prompt, I can observe the following:



- both "nbtstat -a NETBIOSNAME_SERVER_A" and "nbtstat -A IP_SERVER_A" return the correct information regarding the server

- "nbtstat -c" has the netbios name and ip of SERVER_A

- typically, "net view \\IP_SERVER_A" returns the list of the folders shared on SERVER_A

- typically, "net view \\NETBIOSNAME_SERVER_A" hangs without any error message ... only way out is Ctrl-C or close the window

- at time these last two conditions are reversed ... list is returned only with NetBIOS name and not with IP. This last case is quite interesting as if it was just an issue of resolving the NetBIOS name, I should always be able to list the shares via IP ... which is not the case.



TEMPORARY SOLUTION

- force the deletion of all network maps "net use * /delete”

- reboot

- re-map network shares



NOTE

I have multiple pc connected on the LAN and using the same server/shares and none of them have this issue

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