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File Explorer bug re UNC paths
In the past few months a bug has appeared in File Explorer: when I enter a server UNC path in the address box, e.g. \\myserver\e$ and hit Return often nothing happens (no error), when what should h...
We are seeing similar behavior on all our Win 11 systems. Specifically, there is a 5-10 second delay at least for the first time you enter in a UNC in explorer after logging in. After that initial delay, using UNC in explorer is fine with a normal response time. I ran a packet capture to see what was going on and I can see a steady pulse of netbios packets during this 5-10 second delay. The netbios traffic doesn't appear for any subsequent UNC paths. This also does not happen on any Win 10 system at all.