"Unable to recreate shares"

[sidewinder]

Whenever one of my servers boots up, there are about 300 entries for event ID 2511, saying 'The server service was unable to recreate the share xxxx because the directory d:\xxxxx no longer exists. Please run "net share xxxxx /delete" to delete the share or recreate the directory d:\xxxxx

 

Now I understand why they are there, over time theres obviously been a number of folders ive forgotten to unshare before deleting: my own fault.

 

The thing is though, I cant delete the shares as stated, as I get a message saying the shared resource does not exist.

The offending shares dont appear in the shares list in the shared folders snap-in either

 

So if the shares dont exist, or the server doesnt know about them, why is it complaining and how can I get these shares deleted?

 

Any searching for this issue on the net just re-iterates what is described in the log - very useful

[Face-Man]

I had the same problem the only way I could get rid of it was to do a registry edit. Warning "I just found this worked but may send your system pear shaped". I found them in Hkey_local_machine\system\currentcontrolset\services\lanmanserver\shares

and just deleted the entries

 

hope this helps