Network drives fail to connect error 1208 and System error 2148073478

On October 2, 2015, in How-to, by Cubert aka (Cube Dweller)

We had a problem where a Windows 2012 R2 Domain Controller would not browse the shares of another Windows 2012 R2 WorkGroup Server. We kept getting error 1208 and then we tried to force a mapping to share and received System error 2148073478

This problem is caused by the “Secure Negotiate” feature that was added to SMB 3.0 for Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8. This feature depends upon… Continue reading

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Windows 7 – Add a non-indexed UNC path as a library

On February 11, 2011, in How-to, by Cubert aka (Cube Dweller)

Add a non-indexed UNC as a library in Windows 7

There is an occasion when you may want to add a non indexed UNC path to a library inside of your Windows 7 system. Normally Windows bitches and complains when you try to hook up a UNC path that is not indexed but by tricking it we can make it happen. Here is how you do it.
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