How to determine what is changing the path in the shortcut?

Question

Samba

Good afternoon, the network started glitches for some users on their PC. The essence of the glitches is that there is a machine on the network with shared documents and other rubbish, it works on SMB, users on their desktops have shortcuts to network folders in the shortcuts, the path is specified as \\server.domain.ltd\data\folder, and everything seems to be it would be great to have the permissions on the permission folders for all groups except for one bold pre-fat BUT. After a certain time, the user in the shortcut changes the path from what is indicated above to \\server\data\folder, respectively, the user no longer has access to such a path. The user swears by his dad that he didn't touch anything (they all lie). How to be where to look?

Answer 1

The TrkWks service is responsible for "fixing shortcuts" (paths) - Client for tracking changed links
And this happens, perhaps because of the "falling away" of the server, or rather, something there is responsible for such a "domain path".
Or, alternatively, domain.ltd is a "DNS suffix" that is appended to the computer name, but the service crashes (or some other failure occurs) and the suffix is ​​gone. (although the program should still work with the usual server name)
It is also possible that some client computer (or other server) "becomes the main one" (not in terms of storing names and addresses). But here I can’t explain in words :( I don’t have enough experience in explaining this.