1. Take some time to check and ensure there is no firewall blocking, stop firewall.
2. The other possible reason is maybe you did not enable file sharing correctly, feel free to have a look on file sharing articles in Windows7, Vista or XP sections. Don’t forget to click and enable File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks on networkcard’s properties. "Client for Microsoft Networks" are enabled too.
3. In Control Panel \ Network and Internet \ NetworkConnections \ My Connection \ Properies:
Iensured Link-Layer Topology Discovery Mapper I/O Driver was enabled
Iensured Link-Layer Topology Discovery Responder was enabed Tried with
Itried with IPV6 enabled / disabled
4. Enabling NetBIOS over TCP/IP (under IPv4 settings) andensuring IPv6 was disabled.
4. “netsh winsock reset” - Resetting Winsock Catalog and Solving Network Problem. Need torestart the servers.
5. Use windows7diagnostic tool.
http://www.home-network-help.com/cannot-find-the-network-path.html
7. Map Networkdriver.Mapping a network drive to the share (\\192.168.x.y\folder_name)and selecting "use different network credentials" did the trick eventhough the network credentials I typed were identical the logged-on user's Windows UserID and password (no domain prefix, btw). The network share appeared immediately.
8. Try to logon fromother computer.
9.HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\NetworkProvider\HWOrder- Provider Order values were set to LanmanWorkstation,RDPNP in both stringvalues referenced above. I changed these both to HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\NetworkProvider\HWOrder: RDPNP,LanmanWorkstation.
9. Please ensure the windows service below was started:
- Server
- TCP/IP NetBIOSHelper
- Workstation
10. \\Computername\fileshare to try