All of our Windows 7 workstations have the issue below whereas none of our XP machines experience it.
All users map to a DFS share just fine - example: net use w: \\abc.def.org\dfs\corp\00\workgroup
On the Windows 7 machines, when trying to access a sub-folder such as "w:\company\team", (with the appropriate permissions), we are able to scroll through the folders in the share, select the folder that contains the sub-folder that we are needing, (in this case "company"), but when trying to access the sub-folder, (team), we receive a popup window that is entitled "Location is not available"; the body of the window states "Path is not accessible. Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password." Once again, there is no problem on our XP machines, only Windows 7.
As a work-around, we are able to access the folder by mapping directly to the sub-folder -> net use x: \\abc.def.org\dfs\corp\00\workgroup\company\team.
Further information: The DFS share resides on our client's network so I am not positive but I believe it to be on Windows 2008 servers.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.