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STATUS_SHARING_PAUSED
STATUS_SHARING_PAUSED is an administrative or service-state condition. The endpoint may still resolve and respond, but file sharing has been paused. That makes it different from a bad path, an unreachable network or a per-user permission failure.
How to narrow it down
Preserve the status together with the server service state and change history. A pause can be part of maintenance, service orchestration, an appliance state transition or an operator action. Client retries should be limited and should not be used to hide a persistent service policy.
Once sharing is resumed, reconnect rather than assuming that prior tree connections and in-flight operations are still usable. Revalidate writes or creates that were outstanding when the pause was observed.
Evidence that matters
- Verify the server file-sharing service state and scheduled maintenance activity.
- Differentiate a paused share service from a share-specific access denial.
- After recovery, create a fresh connection and validate uncertain mutating operations.
References
- Microsoft Open Specifications: NTSTATUS reference
- Microsoft: SMB overview
- Microsoft: Get-SmbConnection
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