I was recently helping a friend with his Windows 10 machine to connect to his network NAS device and I encountered this error message:
"The mapped network drive could not be created because the following error has occurred:
A specified logon session does not exist. It may already have been terminated."
"The mapped network drive could not be created because the following error has occurred:
A specified logon session does not exist. It may already have been terminated."
This was incredibly odd since he stated that it had been working fine just a few weeks earlier!
Well, after a quick search on the Internet, I came across this posting: http://superuser.com/questions/968879/windows-10-map-network-drive-a-specified-logon-session-does-not-exist
According to the posting, it stated that a Windows update changed the behavior of Windows 10 causing standard connectivity to network devices such as NAS devices using a guest account would require special setup through Credential Manager!
Here are the steps I followed to get this up and running:
I opened Credential Manager from the Windows Control Panel:
I then clicked on "Windows Credentials":
I then clicked on the link for "Add a Windows credential"
I then proceeded to enter the credentials for my network device in the format \\MYNASDEVICE
When I next connected to my friend's NAS device simply using \\MYNASDEVICE in Windows Explorer, it opened without any issues! Hurrah!!
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