All of the sudden, two of the three drives I'd mapped on the server weren't there, and only some of the subfolders of the third drive were accessible. I could see the other folders on that drive, I just couldn't access them, nor the server, over the local network.
I hadn't made any hardware or software changes, so what happened?
- Rebooting (a couple of times) didn't work.
- I unmapped two of the drives that no longer worked. But couldn't unmap the third.
- I checked the credential manager in Windows7 to see whether it had somehow been corrupted. No problems there.
- I checked the network adapter to see that all of the network protocols were checked off. No problems there.
- Checked the Network and Sharing Center settings to ensure Network Discovery was still enabled. Yup, no problems there.
- Checked my firewall. Nope, That wasn't the problem. Scan the computer for viruses. Nope.
- "Googled" the issue and read thru a number of suggestions. The ones that seemed relevant to me I checked and they didn't resolve the issue.
- Checked the server from two other computers to see that the server's drive(s) were actually OK. That wasn't the problem.
- Look through the Computer Services to see if some computer service has somehow been disabled. Nope.
- Disabled the wireless connection. Hey, I'm guessing at this point.
- Try using a Restore Point. This looked like it was going to take a while, so I let it run overnight. Next morning, found the restore didn't work. Great..
- Reboot in Safe Mode. Can't find anything there.
- Wait a couple of hours....
- Think (seriously) about chucking the computer.
- Suddenly, everything's there. No idea why the problem took place or what I did (if anything) to fix it.
- Remap the drives.
What a waste of a few hours.
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