Publishing a new Lync Server 2010 Standard Edition Server topology throws the error: “Error accessing share \someServer.someDomain.com–Method failed with unexpected error code 2310..” & “Cannot create directory. The path is read only: \someserver.someDomain.comLyncShare1-ApplicationServer-1AppServerFiles”

I received a call the other day from an ex-colleague who had some issues with publishing a new Lync Server 2010 Standard Edition Server topology.  The first screen I saw as soon as I got desktop sharing up with him was the following:

The information provided in the window above wasn’t too helpful so I got him to click on the View Logs button to bring up the detailed logs for the topology publisher.  As I scrolled through the logs, I immediately saw the following errors:

Error: Error accessing share \lyncstd.someDomain.comLyncShare – Method failed with unexpected error code 2310..

Error: Cannot create directory. The path is read only: \lyncstd.someDomain.comLyncShare1-ApplicationServer-1AppServerFiles

Error: Cannot create directory. The path is read only: \lyncstd.someDomain.comLyncShare1-ApplicationServer-1AppServerFilesCPS

Error: Cannot create directory. The path is read only: \lyncstd.someDomain.comLyncShare1-ApplicationServer-1AppServerFilesRgs

As some of you may probably have guessed, the first question I asked after seeing these errors was whether he had created the LyncShare folder on the server and not surprisingly, he didn’t.  What I ended up doing as I had control of the desktop was create the share on the server and republish the topology so that the sub folders such as 1-Application-1 would automatically created.