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Windows XP Cannot See "Home" Share?
It was seeing it for awhile, then I re-booted the XP box and cannot see the Home share. Ditto a Windows 7 laptop. OTOH, the "Home" share is visible on my Android smart phone. Something with W...
PeteCress wrote: Dunno what was happening or why, but the proximate cause seems to have been one or more existing connections to the NAS box that did not get removed by the first Net Use * /delete... or even the second one...
I've got a strong suspicion now.
I have been confusing the terms "Drive Mapping" and "Connection".
NET USE * /DELETE was, indeed removing all drive mappings.
But I have a media management app ("SageTV") running as a service which is reaching out to one of the shares on the NAS box - which was creating Connections....regardless of any Drive Mapping.
Kill that service, and the problem goes away: re-mappings happen with no error.
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