WSL1: \\WSL$ not working

[David-Defoort]

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• Your Windows build number: Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.18362.356] (1903)

Problems

1. Explorer shows Ubuntu under \\wsl$ but when I double click I get:
   
2. inside a cmd, dir \\wsl$\Ubuntu does not works ("The system cannot find the path specified.")
3. (in Ubuntu/bash) explorer.exe . inside a /mnt point works fine. Explorer.exe comes up to the expected path location
4. (in Ubuntu/bash) explorer.exe . outside a /mnt point does nothing, it does not even bring explorer at all
5. (in Ubuntu/bash) code does not work outside /mnt points, which is what bothers me the most. It used to work and I became dependent of it...

Attempts

• apt-get update/upgrade no effect
• uninstall/reinstall Ubuntu and Ubuntu-18.04, no effect
• disable WSL, reboot, re-enable, no effect
• verified the registry as #4027 said, no effect

Notes
It all started after upgrading to 1903... explorer . and code were working fine before, regardless of the current directory

[abreingan]

I have been having the same problem as David-Defoort, except with the Debian distro.
I started using WSL recently and was never able to use explorer.exe outside mount points.
I went to 1903 18362.356 and tried everything David tried without a success.
I am now on 10.0.18362.388 and retried the disable wsl and that was successful (not sure if this is permanent or not).
To confirm this was via admin cmd prompt and wsl -t Debian.
I also note Hyper-V is active on this machine.
To be very picky (:-)> starting explorer with \wsl$\Debian and then navigating to /mnt/c fails... "Attempt to access invalid address" OK I was being deliberately difficult - thanks for a very useful product.

[mmbednarz]

Same issue here: 10.0.19043 N/A Build 19043

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