I Tried to make a picture of the error. The system wont let me save it. I click the save button and I get errors. The first error I get when I try to access the array shares is "An error occurred while reconnecting to Z: to \\TOWER....(my share folders) Microsoft windows network: The local device name is already in use. This connection has not been restored." I tried to use snips to make a copy or a PNG to post here. it pulls up the save as screen and click on save and nothing happens. like I didnt click anything. I open up the file explorer and I also get a "network error" Windows cannot access \\tower ... (my share folders) check spelling of the name. Otherwise, there might be a problem with your network. to try to identify and resolve network problems, click diagnose." I have clicked and it knows not what is wrong. The Windows 11 VM was working it still does. what stopped was the network share once i updated. everything is tied to the shares. my desktop some applications documents. everything is mapped to the array. I now cant access any of it.

Edited August 19, 2025Aug 19 by ffgdad

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~

Read this post and the next two:

https://forums.unraid.net/topic/191221-some-musings-on-smb-and-samba-and-unraid-and-windows/#findComment-1561581

There have been some online information where an Windows update was changing network type from 'Private' to 'Public'...

the link to the post helped. thank you