Windows 7 System Error 1231 Network Location Cannot Be Reached

(Almost) same problem here (Windows 7 Pro - 64bit - static IP), but reinstalling File & Print Services don't fix the problem.

Tried every possible solution that I've found on fora & the MS KB (reïnstalling netwerk devices, drivers, tcp ipv6 & ipv4, flushdns, hostsfiles, netsh reset, registry, ... )

I also can't figure out what the problem is causing, there is nothing changed in the configuration, everything always worked fine, but since yesterday it's broken ...

Also, I can't see myself in the net view list or access my own shares on this computer over the network. I see my own computer / host under Network but can't acess it, same error (0x800704cf - The Network Location Cannot Be Reached). Other computers in the network are also not displayed in Explorer or net view

C:\>net view
There are no entries in the list.

C:\>Nbtstat -N

Local Area Connection:
Node IpAddress: [192.168.0.1] Scope Id: []

                NetBIOS Local Name Table

       Name               Type         Status
    ---------------------------------------------
    EISBAERKE      <20>  UNIQUE      Registered

 

Hi eisbaerke
how did u solve the problem?

I've got exactly the same problem and nothing seems to be working.

 

It happened out of nowhere. Sharing was working perfectly until something happened. I share some folder (for example 'music').

Then i go to "My Computer"->"Network" and see name of my computer ('redrum'). There i see 'music' folder that i shared. And when i double click it i can't open it.

 //redrum/music just can't be opened from 'redrum' computer. It's showing me 0x800704cf. I see other computers in the network but they gave me the same error (0x800704cf).

EDIT:

Some informations:

No firewall/antivir

Same problem is both when i'm connected via WiFi and ethernet cable (so it's not drivers i guess)

Other Win7 PCs may see/download things i share (they can acces //redrum/music and i can't!)

In my opinion some files/register is corrupted.

 

Help plx

Hi eisbaerke
how did u solve the problem?

Don't know, but I've tried so many solutions and suddenly, everything was fixed :P

Last steps / possible solutions I've did

• Removed everything about Bluetooth connections
• http://www.google.be/search?hl=nl&q=Microsoft+6to4+Adapter > The 6to4 adapter problem ...
  Device Manager > Network Adapters > and there I've deleted everything that was listed, more than 100 6to4 adapters :P
• TCP ipv/6 disabled > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929852
• Removed everything in Network Connections & reïnstalled all services (Microsoft Networking, TCP/IP, ...)

And suddenly all my network connections / shares where working again ... took me a month to fix it!

it's working. I've got ultimate solution!

 

"Device Manager > Network Adapters > and there I've deleted everything"

That's the part that works. But first of all on device manager you must press 'view' -> 'show hidden devices'. After that small list of 2 or 3 devices is growing to about ~200devices. Unistall all of them (some can't be, don't bother). Then press right mouse button at any adapter and check 'scan for new devices'. After that it's working perfectly:)

Thank you! Looks like my solution. I was seeing these 200+ items showing up in ipconfig, thought it could be the cause of my network not working, but unable to clean them up, even after removeing the device. That 'show hidden devices' is quite a hidden hat trick.

 

If someone else finds the need to remove 200+ devices, and gets bored after manually doing 10 of them, this will save your sanity http://ask-leo.com/is_there_a_way_to_safely_remove_hardware_from_a_batch_file.html

This problem had been plagueing me for over a month. All in all it must have cost about two full working days of productivity and was preventing me from making backups of important project files. Well, deleting the 6to4 adapters did the trick. I had tried just about everything in this thread and a whole bunch of other suggestions, without result. I had noticed the huge amount of network adapters quite soon after installing Windows 7 when I ran ipconfig and noticed a huge result list. Just figured it was a Windows 7 thing, as I didn't see them in my network adapters view. But the advise to display hidden devices in the device manager from VolrathPL showed just how many of these suckers there were.

I think more and more of these appeared over time. The first time I noticed the big list in ipconfig there were far less (about 40 or something). Now I had close to 180. Going back to a system restore point always solved the share issue temporarily, but after a while it just came back. This explains it.

Also thanks to smabe2 for the DevCon hint. Manually removing all those adapters would have driven me nuts. Running "devcon remove *6TO4MP*" was all it took. I did have some trouble due to using a 64-bit OS, though. The 32-bit version of the program can list devices, but can't disable or remove them. I found a 64-bit version here: http://drivers.softpedia.com/progDownload/Mvix-Microsoft-DevCon-Utility-64-bit-Download-47330.html

Scanned the file for viruses. It seems clean and worked for me.

Thanks everyone for the help. I already envisioned a future of having to do all file share access and print jobs through a WinXP virtual machine. Not a nice foresight.

hello,
controls the routing table

 

bye

Hallelujah...thank you very much for posting the fix. I have lost several days dealing with this issue finding no alternative other than doing system restores every day to get my network drives up and running. I followed your instructions and it is WORKING  perfectly. I had to uninstall Network Adapters manually as I had problems installing devcon 64 bit. A little patience and finger work and they are all gone.  THANKS