Error While Attempting to Access a Windows Share (0x80070035)

While attempting to connect to a Windows share you receive the following error:

Error While Attempting to Access a Windows Share (0x80070035)

Windows cannot access \\{target machine name}


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.

If you click "Diagnose" you will see the following error code:

Error While Attempting to Access a Windows Share (0x80070035)

Error code: 0x80070035


The network path was not found.

Note: You may also find that if you attempt to connect a share or map a drive via the target machines IP address it works fine.

Solution

1. Firstly I'm assuming you have used the correct target machine name (can you ping the target server by its name, or only by IP address?)

2. Make sure the Computer Browser Service is both enabled and running.

Error While Attempting to Access a Windows Share (0x80070035)

3. On both the source and target machine, make sure NETBIOS over TCP/IP is enabled.

Error While Attempting to Access a Windows Share (0x80070035)

4. Finally of none of the above have worked, drop to command line and issue the following two commands. (Note: before proceeding take note of the machines IP address, subnet mask, default gateway and DNS settings (from command line run "ipconfig /all").

netsh winsock reset


netsh int ip reset c:\temp\resetlog.txt

Error While Attempting to Access a Windows Share (0x80070035)

5. Reboot the server.

WARNING: When the server has rebooted, it will come back up with a DHCP address, if this is a server or machine that has a static IP address, you will need to re-enter the correct details post reboot.