map network drive stopped working

Question

_{Thursday, September 15, 2016 1:38 AM}

Hi All,<o:p></o:p>

everything was fine until yesterday after 3 windows 10 updates installed overnight. I have a USB HDD drrive connected to my asus router and I had the drive mapped via wireless to my windows 10 machine, all was ok until I turned the machine back on today I can no longer access my network drive. I disconnected the drive from mapped network drives then tried connecting again and I keep getting the below error:

attempting to connect to \192.168.1.1\sda1...

then

the mapped network drive could not be created because the following error has occured:
a specified logon session does not exist. it may already have been terminated.

the updates that installed last night before shutting down are:
-security update for adobe flash player for windows 10 (KB3188128)
-cumulative update for windows 10 (KB3189866)
-windows malicious software removal tool (KB890830)

I tried several solutions I found searching in google but none worked. <o:p></o:p>

my other devices (tables, smart tv, ipad, laptop and even my windows 7 virtual machine in my windows 10 pc) can access my network drive just fine.

<o:p>the drive is setup with guest login</o:p>

any ideas/solutions.<o:p></o:p>

tks<o:p></o:p>

Eric<o:p></o:p>

All replies (5)

_{Friday, September 16, 2016 5:39 AM ✅Answered}

well for some reason now it works.

I didn't do anything different from your suggestion, I followed what you did then changed my router settings to disable guest login (windows credentials obliged me to create a user/pass for my share), tried mapping and did not work. Then I changed my router settings back to allow guest login (I have many devices and family member devices connected I did not want to create users for each :)  ), and voila I mapped my drive again.

thanks !

brgds

Eric

_{Thursday, September 15, 2016 5:23 AM}

Same thing with me. After KB3189866 update I cannot access network share located on my router (samba). Same error as Eric noted. Can't find any solution.

_{Thursday, September 15, 2016 7:28 AM}

Same issue here. The solutions I can find online are not working for Windows 10. Extremely inconvenient..

Edit: after an hour of trying, I could fix my existing network shares by manually adding a windows creddential in the control panel->user accounts. Adding a new share only works when I first add a Windows credential and then add a network share without any specified credentials..

_{Friday, September 16, 2016 2:45 AM}

thanks, tried it out and no luck. I even removed guest login from the router. the only difference is that I get a different error: windows cannot access \192.168.1.1\sda1 check the spelling...etc etc

and the address, share name is fine... works on all my other devices, but not my windows 10 pc.

I guess I'll just have to wait until a fix comes out or someone posts a solution.

tks

Eric

_{Friday, September 16, 2016 7:01 AM}

Hi Eric,

Thank you for sharing your solutions and experience here. It will be very beneficial for other community members who have similar questions.

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