Last night I upgraded my machine to Windows 8 Pro RTM.

Everything seemed to be going well, but then I tried to access a network share.

I get a window that says:



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Network Error

Windows cannot access \\{server redacted}\{path redacted}\



Check the spelling of the name. Otherwise, there might be a problem with your network. To try to identify and resolve network problems, click Diagnose.

Error code: 0x80004005

Unspecified error

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Clicking "Diagnose" doesn't find any issues.

One of our networking guys had the same problem when he signed in to my machine. When I signed into his Windows 7 box I was able to access the network resources just fine - so it doesn't seem to be a user account issue.



I can access some network resources but not others. For example, I can connect to Exchange, I can connect to our TFS server. I can even resolve the server name when I ping it. If I enter the IP of the server instead I get the same error.

My networking guys are stumped.

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