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I set up a new laptop last week, and the last step took the longest. File Explorer would open my NAS, ask for a login, and then fail with this message: A specified logon session does not exist. It may already have been terminated. That is Windows error 1312. This post is the fix that worked for me, and the setup that led up to it. I wrote an older post about a NAS that wouldn’t connect because of a bad Wi-Fi driver. This one is a different cause. ...

I keep forgetting how to reconnect my NAS folder in Windows Explorer. Every time, I end up asking an AI to walk me through it again. So this time I’m writing it down — for myself as much as anyone else. And then today, the usual steps didn’t work. The folder was gone, and reconnecting it failed too, even though the laptop was on the same Wi-Fi as the NAS. That turned into a longer fix. I’ll cover both. ...