Known Issues

Cannot map SMB/CIFS shares from same server with different users

On Windows you cannot access shares from the same host using more than one user concurrently. This is a limitation of the SMB client implementation in Windows.

A workaround is to use either an alternative host name of the server or its raw IP address for the server part of the share URI. Adding a dot at the end of a fully qualified host name also works. For example:

  • //projects.inf.ethz.ch/<share>
  • //projects.inf.ethz.ch./<share>
  • //project.inf.ethz.ch/<share>
  • //project.inf.ethz.ch./<share>
  • //172.31.78.6/<share>

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09 Mar 2026
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