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Has anyone encountered "Win32 Error : The network path was not found" trying to copy files with FinalBuilder 6?

I have a FinalBuilder job that, as a final step, deploys the compiled app and DLLs to a network share on another server.

About 50% of the time, it just fails with

Win32 Error : The network path was not found

Changing the target from \\myserver\myshare to \\myserver.mydomain.com\myshare will often fix it temporarily - the first 2-3 runs after modifying the build file will work, after which it'll start failing again.

The FinalBuilder task is running with domain credentials granting admin access on the target box; and copying files to/from shares on that server via Windows Explorer works reliably.

I'm completely stumped.

Solution

  • Finally tracked this down. The target server was a virtual machine, and the Hyper-V host network settings were set to "Virtual Network" instead of "Virtual Teamed Network"

    I have no idea what that means, but having changed it to Virtual Teamed Network, it works flawlessly. O_o