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Issue on map shared drive to Windows instances, despite configuring Amazon Fsx correctly?

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Hello! So I'm following an AWS workshop that involved the creation of an AWS infrastructure that applied Terraform to build it (https://catalog.us-east-1.prod.workshops.aws/workshops/e5122482-ded0-4259-94f0-c373f23c5257/en-US), and since the Amazon FSx file system had already been created and running, I used Fleet Manager to connect to the EC2 windows server instance via RDP and attempt to map a shared network drive on the server machine. However, in my attempts, I received errors saying that "the network path was not found", along with an error code of 0x80004005. I've already verified TCP/IP NetBOIS Helper service already being online and running, along with correctly entering the DNS name that was retrieved from the Amazon FSx console. I checked the security groups too, and didn't find an issue there, since I was able to easily connect to the instance, so I'm not sure what the issue is. Can anyone provide any help or guidance on this dilemma?

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Hello.

Why not try connecting using the FSx IP address instead of the DNS name?
If you can connect using the IP address, there is a possibility that name resolution is not working properly.

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  • I figured that the IP address could serve as an alternative, but when finding instructions to attach the FSx file system, it showed a few approaches that utilized either the DNS name or DNS alias.

    Much to my surprise, I actually came to find a solution to my dilemma! Turns out that my security group had the inbound rule limited on that end, while my outbound rule was configured correctly. Once I added another inbound rule to the security group, the mapping of the network drive finally worked!

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