Mounted Network Drives generate "Too many levels of symbolic links"

[Beth Kirschner]

I've attached the Get-SmbConnection & 'net use' output - does this provide any clues?

Thanks!
- Beth

------- Original Message -------
On Tuesday, May 23rd, 2023 at 6:27 PM, Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp> wrote:


> On Wed, 24 May 2023 07:23:27 +0900
> Takashi Yano wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 23 May 2023 13:11:42 +0000
> > Beth Kirschner wrote:
> > 
> > > I can no longer access mounted network drives and receive the following error: "Too many levels of symbolic links". Local drives (C:) work fine.
> > > 
> > > I believe the problem started after upgrading to Windows 11. I've updated my cygwin packages and attached output from cygcheck, plus some additional details below. Any ideas?
> > > 
> > > $ mount
> > > C:/cygwin64/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto)
> > > C:/cygwin64/lib on /usr/lib type ntfs (binary,auto)
> > > C:/cygwin64 on / type ntfs (binary,auto)
> > > C: on /cygdrive/c type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
> > > J: on /cygdrive/j type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
> > > O: on /cygdrive/o type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
> > > Q: on /cygdrive/q type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
> > > R: on /cygdrive/r type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
> > > S: on /cygdrive/s type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
> > > U: on /cygdrive/u type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
> > > V: on /cygdrive/v type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
> > > X: on /cygdrive/x type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
> > > 
> > > bkirschner@LAP123 ~
> > > $ ls /cygdrive/q
> > > ls: cannot open directory '/cygdrive/q': Too many levels of symbolic links
> > 
> > What does Get-SmbConnection command say in PowerShell running
> > as Administrator?
> 
> 
> Also, what does 'net use' command say in command prompt running
> as your user account?
> 
> --
> Takashi Yano takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp
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