Unavailable drive or network share do. No access to network folder

Unavailable drive or network share do.  No access to network folder
Unavailable drive or network share do. No access to network folder

It is a generally accepted norm and you will not surprise anyone with their presence. Due to the availability of the Internet connection, various online services are becoming more and more popular. Some of the most popular are network folders and remote resources, organized both on your home network and provided by your Internet provider. Most often everything works as expected, but from time to time there may be errors that prevent full operation, which ordinary user doesn't know how to solve. One of the most popular errors is "No access to network folder" errors. Some of them may be indicated by a numeric or alphanumeric code, such as 1231 or 0x800704cf. These problems can be caused by various factors. In this article, we offer you to deal with all the reasons, as well as offer ways to solve them.

No access to network folder

Let's imagine that you have several computers between which you want to configure home network so that you don't copy the necessary files all the time. In this case, you need to create a folder on one of the computers, make it public so that it can be accessed from any other device with Internet access. It can even be a smartphone or tablet.

One of the most common errors when working with remote folders is that there is no access to a network folder, which may result in the error code 0x800704cf. You see a shared network folder in Explorer, but when you try to open it, you get the message "No access to resource." The exact text of the message may differ depending on the version of the operating system. What are possible reasons such a problem? There may be several of them:

  • A single user has not been granted access rights to a folder located on the network.
  • The user does not have permission to access the network resource at the operating system security level.
  • The user generally does not have any permissions to access the resource.

Every problem can be solved. Let's take a closer look.

Configuring access to a network folder for each user

All settings must be made on the computer or resource where the contents of the folder are stored. To configure user access to a folder, you must:

  1. Go to computer management (depending on the version of the operating system, click right click click on the icon My computer on the desktop Windows desktop or by clicking the Start button, then select Manage or Computer Management) and select Shared Folders - Shared Resources.
  2. Find a folder in the list of resources that you cannot access and see its location on your hard drive.
  3. Open File Explorer and find the desired folder ( Windows users 10 can perform further actions without going to Explorer by simply right-clicking the mouse directly in the Computer Management utility menu).
  4. Right-click on it, select Properties - Access - Advanced settings - Permissions (or Properties - Permissions for a share).
  5. You will see at least two items - Administrators and Everyone. Hover the cursor over the All item and make sure that all items in the Allow column are checked ( full access, change, read). If there is a tick in the Deny column next to some item, you should remove it from here and put it in the Allow column.
  6. Confirm the changes by clicking Apply - OK, and then try again to use the network resource.

Right click on "Computer" and select "Manage" from the context menu

Configuring access to a resource at the system security level

Sometimes it happens that at the security level of the operating system, access of third-party users to a network resource is prohibited. To fix the issue:

  1. In the Properties menu, open the Security tab and click on the Edit button, then Add.
  2. In the "Enter the names of the objects to select" line, capitalize All and click OK.
  3. Once you're redirected back to the list of groups and users, hover over the newly created Everyone group and check off the actions you want to allow. The checked default items are enough to read data from a remote network resource.
  4. Click Apply - OK - OK and try to access the network folder again.

Error 1231 occurs when trying to connect to the internet

Error 1231 occurs when a Windows computer cannot access resources located on remote server. Most often occurs when an Internet provider provides access to an international network using VPN technology. It can also occur when you try to access a local network access provider resource. If access was and suddenly disappeared, this problem may occur for one of the following reasons:

  • problems on the part of the provider;
  • interruption of communication between the subscriber and the server;
  • failure of the network card of the computer;
  • failure of network card drivers;
  • the security system of the operating system is blocking the VPN connection;
  • incorrectly established or disconnected connection via local network;
  • actions of virus programs.

First of all, you should check if error 1231 occurs due to the fault of the Internet provider. To do this, you need to launch a command prompt (Win + R - cmd, or right-click on the Start button - Command Prompt) and enter the following command:

net view \\domain:domain name,

Where domain name means the address of the server that the provider provided to you to connect to the World Wide Web. If issued " System error 53. Not found network path”, then the problem is on the part of the service provider. In this case, you should contact technical support.

If such an error does not knock out, you will have to look for the cause in your computer or laptop on Windows. What can be done to fix error 1231?


Conclusion

We hope that we have helped you with solving the problem of accessing network resources with codes 1231 and 0x800704cf. We are confident that if you follow our instructions exactly, you will be able to solve everything yourself. In the comments, please indicate whether you managed to deal with the issue without the help of specialists.

In the process of working with a computer running Windows, the following problem may occur: when you click on a shortcut to a disk or network resource, the system displays a warning that the drive or is not available to which the Ink shortcut refers. In most cases, this problem is not difficult to solve.

If you open a disk or resource through a shortcut, which, for example, is placed on the desktop, then the error “The disk is not available or network resource referenced by " occurs because the address specified in the shortcut does not match the actual path.

To make it clearer, we present specific example. The user inserted a USB flash drive into the computer's USB port, and since he often uses this drive, he decided to move its shortcut from "Computer" to the desktop. After that, he inserted a USB flash drive into the same port many times and everything worked. However, at some point, the usual USB, for example, turned out to be busy, because of which the drive had to be connected to another port, and this time the flash drive did not open through a shortcut on the desktop, but instead an error window popped up.

The reason for the error of the inaccessibility of the disk or network resource to which the lnk shortcut refers is that when the user connected the USB flash drive to the same port, it was always given a name in the system, for example, "Disk G", but since now it is inserted into another USB, it has been given a different name.

but when I try to log in, the system displays a message:

Windows cannot access \\computer\network_share. Permission to access \\computer\network_share absent. Talk to network administrator to gain access.

IN operating system Windows XP similar message sounds like this:

No access to \\computer\network_share. You may not have permission to use this network resource. Please contact the administrator of this server for the appropriate access rights. Access denied

Why is there no access to a network resource?

The reason may be the following factors:

  • The user does not have permission to access the share.
    These rights are configured on the tab Access and are relevant only for configuring network access.
  • The user does not have permission to access the folder at the NTFS permission level
    Customize on the tab Safety. This setting controls access rights for both network and local access.
  • The user does not have network access permissions or NTFS rights.

How to share a network folder with all users

The settings must be made on the computer where the network resource is located.

Go to Computer Management:

Opening the section Shared folders. Highlight a subsection Shared Resources and find out the local path to the folder that is open to the network.
In our example, we see that the network resource temp matches local path c:\temp :

Find the local folder, right-click on it and call Properties:

1 The first thing to check is network access permissions. Opening a tab Access and press the button Advanced setup:

We press the button Permissions:

We check for whom network access is open, and we also check the rights.
In order to enter the network resource, all users could enter the list Share Permissions need to add a group All.
In our case, full access for the group is open. All. So, everything is in order with network permissions:

2 The second thing to check is NTFS permissions. Go to the tab Safety and check the global permissions to access the folder.
In our example, we see that only users and administrators of the local computer can see and enter this folder. This means that if we try to log in to a network resource under a user who does not have an account on local computer, we will be denied access.

In order to allow access to the folder to all users, even those who do not have an account on the local computer, you must add the same group to the list All. To do this, press the button Change:

Adding a group All and press OK.

Attention! It is NOT necessary to search for a group in the list of groups and users. You can simply write the word “All” with your hands - always with a capital letter.

Now we specify which operations are allowed for the Everyone group. To access and download files over the network, it is enough to allow:

  • Reading;
  • Reading and execution;
  • List of folder contents.

After setting permissions, click OK to save your permission settings.

In the process of working with a computer running Windows, the following problem may occur: when you click on a shortcut to a disk or network resource, the system displays a warning that the drive or network share is unavailable that the Ink shortcut refers to. In most cases, this problem is not difficult to solve.

If you open a disk or resource through a shortcut, which, for example, is placed on the desktop, then the error “The disk or network resource referenced by the lnk shortcut is not available” occurs as a result of the address specified in the shortcut does not match the actual path.

To make it clearer, let's take a concrete example. The user inserted a USB flash drive into the computer's USB port, and since he often uses this drive, he decided to move its shortcut from "Computer" to the desktop. After that, he inserted a USB flash drive into the same port many times and everything worked. However, at some point, the usual USB, for example, turned out to be busy, because of which the drive had to be connected to another port, and this time the flash drive did not open through a shortcut on the desktop, but instead an error window popped up.

The reason for the error of the inaccessibility of the disk or network resource to which the lnk shortcut refers is that when the user connected the USB flash drive to the same port, it was always given a name in the system, for example, "Disk G", but since now it is inserted into another USB, it has been given a different name.

In the case of a network drive, the reason is even simpler - the server is unavailable. Yes, ping can go to it, but there is no connectivity. Perhaps the access settings have been changed or something else.

If an access error occurs, it is more related to the hardware configuration, then when all icons, for example, on the desktop, have the lnk extension, the problem is due to a configuration change in the file association.

It can occur, for example, when the user tried to open a shortcut in some program and, when performing the corresponding action in the application selection menu, by default checked the checkbox “use the program for all files of this type”. As a result of this, shortcut files have become associated with the selected application, which is not able to launch programs by shortcut.

To return everything, as it was possible to use the application Unassociate File Types.

  1. Download, install and open the program;
  2. In the search bar, type.lnk;
  3. Select .lnk from the filtered list;
  4. Click on "Remove File Association".

As a result of the performed actions, the associations set for this file type will be deleted. Now the shortcuts will open as they should, and the error "The disk or network resource to which the lnk shortcut refers" will not appear.

All shortcuts began to have the .lnk extension, how to fix it through the registry

If you don't want to install third party application, you can troubleshoot INK shortcuts through the registry. To do this, follow these steps:

  1. Press the key combination "CTRL + R";
  2. Enter "regedit" and click "Ok";
  3. Open the category "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT;
  4. In the list that appears, find .lnk and specify the value “lnkfile” in the parameters (if something else is there, then you first need to delete the old value and only then enter and save the new one).

After that, the shortcuts will work again as they should.

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Question: The network drive is marked as inaccessible


On a Windows 7 Professional computer connected network drive Z:, which refers to the \\comp\obmen folder on the computer with Windows Server 2003 on the local network.
Sometimes this network drive is marked with a red cross, and when you try to access it from some program, an error is generated:

"... refers to an inaccessible location. This could be a drive on this computer or a network share. Make sure the drive is inserted and properly connected, or that you are connected to the Internet or a local area network, and try again. If it fails again, you may that the data has been moved to another location"

Although in fact there is a local network connection to this network folder too.
It is enough to click on the Z drive in the explorer: - the red cross disappears and everything works fine.

It turns out that Win7 somehow incorrectly displays the status of this network drive?
Can this be fixed somehow?
So that the operating system correctly displays the status?

Answer:

Quote ES:

Command Script + Task Scheduler

Question: Installing the program on a mapped network drive


Good afternoon

We have Windows 8. A network drive is connected. You need to install the program to a folder on a network drive. When the installation wizard comes to choosing the installation folder, I click "browse" and I do not see any networked environment computers or a mapped network drive.

How to achieve network display when selecting the program installation folder?

Added after 1 hour 53 minutes
Thanks for the answer.

I will try to describe my situation in more detail.
There are 40 machines on the network with different operating systems from WinXP to 8. On one of the machines with Win 8 OS (designated as a server for some X program), general access to the folder where the X program is installed. This folder is mapped on other machines as a network drive, and the client locations of the X program are installed on this network drive. On computers with XP there are no problems: the installation of the X program is in progress, when the wizard comes to choosing the installation location, "browse" and select the network drive.

When I try to install client places on computers with WIN 8 OS, after clicking the "Browse" button in Explorer, there is no mapped network drive and, in general, computers in the network environment. Although "My Computer" contains a mapped network drive, it allows you to access, modify, save and view its contents.

What could be the problem?

Answer: It looks like something terrible - to install a program on a network drive in order to use it from client machines.
If the program is already installed on a network drive, what prevents you from installing the program locally on your computer and then redoing the paths?
Or try to install the program on a machine where a network drive is connected, and then display a shortcut from the network to the client with win8.

Question: network drive


Hi all.
Gentlemen, tell me, please, what is the question:
Mapping a new network drive
after a reboot, it requires re-entering the credentials to connect.

Detail:
Servers: with Windows Server 2008 and 2012
accounting: Student with user rights.
for network folders - this account has full access.

We connect the network drive Z: (from the server with Windows Server 2008) - everything is fine.
We connect the network drive X: (from a server with Windows Server 2012) - after a reboot, it requires the introduction of credentials for the connection.

And this is not on all computers, but only on campuses in classrooms.

In the accounting department, Consultant + works from a server with Windows Server 2012 - everything is fine.

Maybe a problem with the system?

Let me know who has come across.

Added after 21 hours 55 minutes
The question remains open, but the situation was resolved as follows:
bat file to autoload with the following content:
net use x: \\pdct\progs /persistent:no /user:Student 11qqaaZZ
x: - drive letter
pdct - server name
progs - the name of the connected folder, as a network drive
Student - login
11qqaaZZ - password

After loading, it gives a message that it was not possible to connect all network drives, then the system itself loads completely and the files in startup are executed. Hence our file.

You need to increase the timeout for connecting network drives.

Answer: connect via explorer (service) -> (connect a network drive).
or
via command line (net use x: \\pdct\progs /persistent:no /user:Student 11qqaaZZ)
the result is the same

Server1
name - pdc
workgroup - netadm

server2
name - pcct
working group - mkts

Passwords are different
Initially, the Student user has a password of 123.
and if Windows server 2008 allows such a password, then Windows server 2012 swears, requiring a complex password.

Computer:
name - k-301
working group - mkts

If you connect from under the admin account using another account to connect (respectively Student 11qqaaZZ) then everything is fine. after a reboot, the disk itself connects.
and when connected from under the Student account, after rebooting, there is an X disk in the explorer:
when accessing this disk, it asks for a username and password,
and the username line says k-301/Student and not just Student ???

The computer logs say that it is impossible to map a network drive, the username or password is incorrect.

Question: Problem with displaying a network drive for users


Given:
An elevated domain running Windows Server 2003 r2 with AD configured.
There are a lot of users and a SHARE network drive "Z" on a separate file-sharing server under windows control server 2008 r2.
The network drive Z is connected automatically by some script when the OS of domain users is loaded.
Recently, the network drive "Z" in a full state (the scale under the drive in "My Computer") began to show that there was less than 10% of free space left and turned red (which annoys users). BUT the volume that is shown to users on the “Z” drive DOES NOT BELONG TO THE NETWORK DRIVE DISK, BUT BELONGING TO THE “C” DISK WITH THE FILE EXCHANGE SERVER OS. Maybe the former admin is joking...
Task:
1. Find out where the common script for domain users is located, indicating the network drive.
2. Fix display of network drive full.

Answer: Looks like I got it halfway.
Apparently, such a mapping of a network drive occurs due to the fact that the "DFS Namespace" is located in a folder just at the root of the "C" drive.
The next question is how to move this "namespace" to another "native" disk, where is the file-sharing folder?
I could be wrong and it won't help...

Question: Windows7 disable network drive


How to disable a network drive with a red cross in Explorer? those. the disk of which no longer physically exists with the computer. When trying to disable standard means the system writes "error not found network path" and does not disable. The problem is that it hurts my eyes and reminds me when loading that it could not connect to all network drives. Thank you.

Answer: Check out what you found:

Disable network drive network connection does not exist

If you need to disconnect a network drive, but instead of being disconnected, it throws an error " Network connection does not exist", then you should just temporarily "replace" this network drive with a link to a live share, for example, by linking it to \\localhost\c$ and rebooting the machine, after that it can be easily deleted. An example via the command line:

Net use i: \\localhost\c$ /persistent:yes
reboot (I just killed the explorer.exe process)
net use i: /delete (after that I had to disable C$, which appeared in the place of the former network drive, by hand)
found here

Question: Map network drive button not responding


Good afternoon
Windows Server 2008 standart SP2
Not in a domain.

Under the administrator in the terminal I go - Computer - I press to connect a network drive. - Generally does not respond to pressing.
What could be?
p.s user account control is enabled .. maybe because of it?
And where is the executable for launching the Network Drive Mapping Wizard itself, it can be launched with the right button - run as administrator ..

In group policy, I also did not find such an item from the manuals in the Internet
"Next, let's create group policy and go to User Configuration > Preferences > Windows Settings > Drive Maps"

Answer:

Quote pomestnik:

The master starts like this:

Rundll32.exe shell32.dll,SHHelpShortcuts_RunDLL Connect

Will it work?

You can also connect a network drive with the Net use command.

Question: Network drive for another user


There are two users on the computer: User and Administrator.

Can it be done like this:
1) go under User "a
2) using command line(namely NET USE) create a network drive for the Administrator.

And so that when from under User "a there was an attempt to enter a network drive, something like: Access denied would be issued.

Immediately we make the transition of the user, go under the Administrator and see the network drive and calmly go into it.

Is it possible?

Answer: well, if so, then this will not work, since they are mapped for a specific user
You can use a script, shtask or GPO to connect a network drive during login.
legs my opinion if the user does not have access, then do not provoke his curiosity and leave him in the dark
out of curiosity, he will start picking, and picking ... then you won’t figure it out without a bottle

Question: [Solved] Failed to connect to network drives


When starting the computer (Windows xp sp2, Celedon D 3 GHz, 512 MB, Epox i915, built-in LAN card) a Windows alert pops up that it was not possible to connect to network drives, naturally, programs that work with this drive do not start. If you immediately go to My Computer and try to go to a network drive, it opens normally and quickly, after which everything works without problems until the next reboot. Switches changed (Surecom, ancient 3-com, D-Link) - the problem remains. Did not check a network card and wires.
What could be the problem?

Answer: Murder7
You have some tricky problem.

You can try in policies (gpedit.msc):
Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> System -> Logon
Enable "Always wait for network initialization at boot and login".

If it doesn’t work, in the script (your Logon.cmd) you can do something like this:

@Echo Off SetLocal EnableExtensions EnableDelayedExpansion Rem Loop until the server is available:Loop Ping -n 1 -l 1 -w 750 Server_name or_IP If Not "!ErrorLevel!"=="0" GoTo:Loop Rem Connect network drives here NET USE Y: \\Server_Name or_IP\ShareName /PERSISTENT:NO Exit

Although this is a perversion (not a solution to the problem, but a workaround :))

Question: Mapping a network drive to a group of users in a domain


Mapping a network drive to a user upon successful logon to a Windows Server 2003 R2 domain occurs by executing a logon script file. If there are a large number of users, this scenario must be prescribed for each user. Whether prompt is in Windows Server 2003 R2 Service Pack 2 an opportunity of connection of a network drive to group of users?

Answer: If each user has his own network drive, then in the user's properties in the profile tab, you can connect the home folder.
If all users from a group need to connect one network drive, then this must be done through the GPO. user configuration, windows configuration, scripts for login and logout.

Question: Create a network drive on the server


Guys, I need help, I need to make a network drive on a server, there is 1 router, a lan cable goes from it to a server and it also distributes the Internet to other campaigns, the drive is required without any privileges, purely for back up, what do I need to do for this, I tried to set up a file server and shared it, but it's even .. Maybe there are articles and so on.

Answer: RMB on my computer "connect a network drive" and select a shared folder, or via cmd

net use W:\\share address\