[Samba] Recurring Error: The specified network name is no longer available

Rowland penny rpenny at samba.org
Fri Aug 14 14:35:20 UTC 2020


On 14/08/2020 15:29, Gerard Owusu wrote:
> Hi Rowland,
>
> >No, you said the error occurred when you tried to 'map' the share, that
> i>sn't quite the same.
>
> >Can you open 'Explorer' on windows and browse to the share, or can you
> >type \\ip_of_samba_server\Anobymous into the top bar and connect ?
>
> So I stopped trying to map and did the above and got this:

That might possibly be your problem, you should be connecting to the 
shares name, not its path, try this instead:

\\199.188.204.72\Anonymous

Rowland




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