Net use between servers

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Joe Bucar

Hello,
What I want to do is to be able to use the "net use" command between two sbs
servers one is a 2000 and the other is a 2003. I have them currently on the
same switch and if I change the 2000 to an address in the 2003 ip range I
can ping just fine. When I try to use the net use command I get the
"network path not found 53 error. Is there something blocking that I am not
aware of? I just want to access a drive.
Thank You,
Joe
 
Joe Bucar said:
Hello,
What I want to do is to be able to use the "net use" command between two sbs
servers one is a 2000 and the other is a 2003. I have them currently on the
same switch and if I change the 2000 to an address in the 2003 ip range I
can ping just fine. When I try to use the net use command I get the
"network path not found 53 error. Is there something blocking that I am not
aware of? I just want to access a drive.
Thank You,
Joe
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- What are your address ranges?
- What are your IP settings?
- What firewalls do you have?
- Can you make a connection when using the IP address
instead of the NetBIOS names?
- Can you make a connection when going in the opposite
direction?
 
Thank You for your reply
The 2000 sbs server IP is 192.168.16.5
The 2003 sbs server IP is 192.168.16.2
I can ping from sbs 2000 to sbs 2003 and from sbs 2003 to sbs 2000
I can not make a connection using an IP address with the NET USE command
from either direction.

Joe
 
Unfortunately you chose to leave a few important questions unanswered:

- What are your address ranges? OK, got those.
- What are your IP settings? No reply here. Default Gateways, DNS, Subnet
Masks.
- What firewalls do you have? No reply here. Virus scanner firewall?
- Can you make a connection when using the IP address
instead of the NetBIOS names? OK.
- Can you make a connection when going in the opposite
direction? OK.
 
Sorry,
The 2003 Windows IP Configuration is

Ethernet adapter Server Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.16.2
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

Ethernet adapter Network Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.58
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.254

Windows 2000 IP Configuration

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection Wan:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.209.2
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.209.1

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection Internal:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.16.5
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
On the default gateway for the 2000 I have used 192.168.16.2 and
192.168.16.5 and the same results.
Both servers have ISA 2000 installed on them. When I am not trying to
connect the servers the normal IP address for the 2000 server is
192.168.30.2

Thank You
 
I find it difficult to get to the bottom of your problem,
for these reasons:
- I can't see any DNS addresses anywhere. Without
those your machines may not be able to resolve NetBIOS
names to IP addresses.
- I don't know anything about your firewall settings.
- You operate several subnets (192.168.16, 192.168.1, 192.168.30).
Without a network diagram it is difficult to see how they
talk to each other.

I suggest this:
- Put all your machines on the same subnet while testing.
- Make all subnet masks 255.255.255.0 while the machines
are on the single subnet.
- Take care to specify the correct DNS.
- Disable your machine-based firewalls while testing.

When you get the desired result, change one parameter
at the time until you have the precise configuration you
require.
 
Hello,
Currently I am not worried about the DNS names I just want to use the net
use command with an IP address for now.
There are no internal firewalls and the 192.168.1.xx are the external IP's
for the Internet through a router. I have both servers internal connections
on the same switch. When I change the 2000 server internal IP 192.168.16.5,
I am able to ping from the 2003 server and I can ping the other way around.
I just want to do "net use * \\192.168.16.5\g" from the 2003 server. Is it
because they are both sbs servers that this can not happen?
Thanks,
Joe
 
Are you trying to use that exact statement "net use * \\192.168.16.5\g"?

If so, you probably need to assign a drive letter where the * is.

Is "g" a share on that server?
 
Hello,
You can use the * or a drive letter and there is a share on the server
called "g". The * is the next available device name and I have tried it
with the drive letter and the *. Do you know what ports the NET USE uses ?
Thanks,
Joe
 
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