Network Drives Mapping Issue

Hello Everyone,
Since 10 days we have been facing a very different issue. A user in my company is not able to map shared drives on his Windows 7 Laptop.
There are 6 windows-7 workstations having a Share in their respective c drive.  C:\ABC\xxx_share. These folders has "everyone" on both share and security permissions.
\machine1\xxx_share (Using single slash instead of double slash here becoz its not letting me post links here)
\machine2\xxx_share
\machine3\xxx_share
\machine4\xxx_share
\machine5\xxx_share
\machine6\xxx_share
when we try accessing \machine1\c$ - nothing comes out.
We have tried mapping through IP address
We have tried force mapping through CMD
we checked firewall, everything is off.
I have directly added the user to all the 6 folders even though user is not able to map it.
We are not able to diagnose as what an issue can be here.
The machine is pingable and we are able to take RDP a couple of days back, but now even the machines are not accessible.
I would request your help.
Thanks
Metal Musician

Thanks Mike. Yes i tried mapping to the shared folder only. I just tried to check C$ whether it accessible or not.
It was not accessible. This is not resolved yet
If you cannot even RDP to the clients that is not the problem of shared folders etc. However C$ is accessible to local admins, security software disable access to those hidden shares as a default behavior. McAfee HIP is a case in point. Also hidden shares can
be disabled too.
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