{"id":576,"date":"2014-04-25T11:49:53","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T18:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/?p=576"},"modified":"2014-04-25T11:50:46","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T18:50:46","slug":"could-not-access-network-shares-in-windows-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/could-not-access-network-shares-in-windows-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Could not access network shares in Windows 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A user at work called saying they could not access any network shares. \u00a0He could ping them but not browse them. \u00a0After confirming he could not browse any network shares I opened up the command prompt and tried to run net use to see what connections there were. \u00a0It displayed the following error&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<pre style=\"color: #000000;\"><code>&gt; net use\r\n&gt; System error 50 has occurred\r\n&gt; The request is not supported.\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>After some Googling I discovered there was an issue with a few registry keys. \u00a0There was 2 leading comma&#8217;s in the below\u00a0registry keys.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<pre style=\"color: #000000;\"><code>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\NetworkProvider\\HwOrder\r\nHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\NetworkProvider\\Order<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-577 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/leadingcommas-300x133.png\" alt=\"leadingcommas\" width=\"300\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/leadingcommas-300x133.png 300w, https:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/leadingcommas.png 394w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nI deleted the 2 comma&#8217;s and it started working.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-578\" src=\"http:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/removedcommas-300x133.png\" alt=\"removedcommas\" width=\"300\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/removedcommas-300x133.png 300w, https:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/removedcommas.png 394w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A user at work called saying they could not access any network shares. \u00a0He could ping them but not browse them. \u00a0After confirming he could not browse any network shares I opened up the command prompt and tried to run net use to see what connections there were. \u00a0It displayed the following error&#8230; &gt; net&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[158,155,157,156,40],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it","tag-networking","tag-registry","tag-shares","tag-smb","tag-windows"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1vc3H-9i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":580,"href":"https:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions\/580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}