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I am trying to access a network share at my workplace and am unable with the Windows 7 machines.

With the XP machines I can hit \x3400 and \\10.10.1.x and accessed shared folders. With Windows 7 I can hit \\10.10.1.x but \\x3400 gives me the ol' unspecified Microsoft error 0x80004005.

I fished around looking for a solution on Google but came up blank. Lots of discussion about orders of name resolution but no actual useful fix.

Can anyone help and/or point me to a solution?

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If you are unable to find out what is wrong with your DNS server, a temporary quick workaround would be to add the machines' IP addresses to the hosts file. – paradroid Sep 7 '10 at 9:18
I tried that this morning with no success. I don't think it is my DNS server as the xp machines can find it no problem. It's a windows7 issue that I am not sure how to fix – Jake Rue Sep 7 '10 at 21:36
@paradroid - your answer did it. I just needed to reboot before the HOSTS file worked. – Jake Rue Sep 7 '10 at 23:28
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