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Since ages I've mounted a network share (via samba to a Linux machine) in Windows 7 to access it via drive letter. This worked flawlessly so far. Until now.
Suddenly I couldn't access the drive anymore. Windows was telling me the network name (I didn't remember the exact term) was already in use. So I disconnected and tried to connect again:
net use Y: \\10.10.10.208\work
After a long time I get a message saying
"The Local Security Authority (LSA) database contains an internal inconsistency"
A restart didn't help. The mapped share is accessible (works on other machines in the same network), so obviously something strange is going on on my machine. Can anyone tell me how I can fix this inconsistency?
Update: All machines that have saved the login information refuse with this error. So it must be something with the authorization. When I use
net use Y: \\10.10.10.208\work /user:raphael
it prompts me for the password and then returns that error message.
Thanks for your thoughts. I checked lsass.exe which seems to be ok so far. I tried using a different account on the machine but the same error occurs here. I'm connected via cable LAN. I don't think it's a hardware error or driver problem as I can successfully mount another drive with another remote server. I will try another machine and see if it's maybe a problem with the target server. – acme – 2012-08-27T07:35:18.647
I tried it on two different Windows machines in the same network now, and strangely it works on one where it returns the same error message on another machine (where it worked before, too). – acme – 2012-08-29T07:39:29.367
1I found out it was a samba problem with the remote server (see my answer). Thanks for your help, though! – acme – 2012-08-29T08:23:17.313