It took me a while to troubleshoot, but here are the things to check on the SonicWall: Windows Explorer was always coming back with an error, and the details indicated that 'The network path was not found.' My issue had nothing to do with DNS, as the same thing happened whether I used the host name or the IP address. I was having this issue as well, but with some different symptoms: I was not able to access any servers using SMB/file sharing. This answer is intended for future readers as this thread was the top Google result for my issue. I can't tell if this is a SonicWALL issue or something on the remote network. When everything is working, the pings never fail, \servername opens explorer with the shares visible (after authenticating), although \serverip has the same behavior.

pings are all request timeout, although randomly the first one goes through.

\servername gives me the error Windows cannot access \servername.

\serverIP opens the windows explorer window but is empty.So to be clear, once NetExtender is connected: Was going to tackle these one at a time and test between each.īut, now no access again.

Wanted to lock it down as much as possible and only allow specific server on single interface. Connection now worked and resolved to server name.Ĭurrent settings were SSLVPN access on LAN and WAN, with Tunnel All mode on all interfaces. Found that NetExtender was a different version so uninstalled and reinstalled correct one. Moved to another laptop and was not able to connect.

I was able to get to the shared drives by doing a \appserverNAME but not \appserverIP. I'm a great troubleshooter but this just isn't consistent.

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