I am trying to apply a GPO that maps drives so that another GPO can then make them available offline for a couple of hundred users.
Every time I try to apply the policy it fails with an 0x80070035 error which translates as a "Network Path cannot be found". The security settings for that particular folder is fine and the user can see it ok, furthermore following logon I can manually map the drive through windows explorer and through CMD/powershell using the net use command.
The path i tried was \\servername\otherdir\securearea\ which didnt work (i did drop and add the final "\" just in case i was going mad)
i then tried \\servername\otherdir\unsecurearea\ which still failed
just to prove my lack of sanity i created a folder on the hard drive of the laptop itself, made it a shared folder and tried both \\localhost\sharedfolder and \\127.0.0.1\sharedfolder, they all fail with the same error code.
i have checked the hosts and the lmhosts files are there is nothing new in there, only the usual MS gumf that has come with every copy on windows since Win95
patience is wearing thin, hair is getting short ...
thoughts anyone?
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