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I have a NAS. Every time I try to access it, this is the error I get. It has been going on for a couple of weeks. I deleted the mapped drives and mapped them again. That got me about 6 hours of functionality, but I was just now playing some music from the NAS and playback froze in the middle of a song. Why? Because the music player is suddenly unable to find the file and using Explorer to go look at it yields:
"An error occurred while reconnecting Z: to <server share name> Windows network: The local device name is already in use. This connection has not been restored.
Searching the Microsoft help for this error message gives exactly 3 hits. Two are irrelevant and the third is for a Windows XP client trying to connect to Server 2003. Please.
Is there a permanent fix for this?
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All computers have this problem every damn day. That's a total of four computers. The only solution is a reboot and hope that it hang in there long enough to do something. Disk Management shows no other device trying to use the drive letter. File and print sharing is enabled, which is the only positive recommendation I've every seen. Windows needs to be able to handle basic file transfer back and forth to a NAS.
Type these commands in a Command Prompt (cmd.exe):
net use * /d /y
net use /persistent:no
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Bad to worse. Now it says the drive doesn't exist at all.
Bad to worse. Now it says the drive doesn't exist at all.
You must remap the share, either in File Explorer or at the command prompt:
net use Z: \ServerName\ShareName
The share is still present in File Explorer and cannot be removed. Running the above command in a terminal gives the message System error 67 The Network Name cannot be found. Well it is there and I can see it from other computers.I'm going to reboot this one now, but even if the share reconnects I'm pretty confident that if I access it, I'll get the same error within about half an hour.
