Network Drives

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Freightliner

Hi

I am having this problem with Vista Business.
My network drives were always mapped as \\SERVERNAME\foldername

Some days ago my network drive stopped working.
I remapped them using the server IP address, for instance \
\192.168.101.101\foldername
and they all work fine this way.

If I try to map the same folder using SERVERNAME instead of the IP
address, no way.

Other computers in my network running Vista do not have the same
problem: they can map a new network drive using SERVERNAME.


Thanks for help.
 
Freightliner said:
Hi

I am having this problem with Vista Business.
My network drives were always mapped as \\SERVERNAME\foldername

Some days ago my network drive stopped working.
I remapped them using the server IP address, for instance \
\192.168.101.101\foldername
and they all work fine this way.

If I try to map the same folder using SERVERNAME instead of the IP
address, no way.

Other computers in my network running Vista do not have the same
problem: they can map a new network drive using SERVERNAME.
Click to expand...

Does adding the computer names and IP addressed to the Hosts file help?

ss.
 
Freightliner said:
Hi

I am having this problem with Vista Business.
My network drives were always mapped as \\SERVERNAME\foldername

Some days ago my network drive stopped working.
I remapped them using the server IP address, for instance \
\192.168.101.101\foldername
and they all work fine this way.

If I try to map the same folder using SERVERNAME instead of the IP
address, no way.

Other computers in my network running Vista do not have the same
problem: they can map a new network drive using SERVERNAME.


Thanks for help.
Click to expand...


It may be that the DNS table on your system has become corrupted, so
the computer can no longer associate a server name with its IP address.
Try flushing your DSN table.

At the command prompt, type IPCONFIG /FLUSHDNS, and then reboot.


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Does adding the computer names and IP addressed to the Hosts file help?
Click to expand...

actually I cant even save changes to the hosts file (even if I my user
is a computer administrator)

thanks for help
 
        It may be that the DNS table on your system has become corrupted, so
the computer can no longer associate a server name with its IP address.
  Try flushing your DSN table.

        At the command prompt, type IPCONFIG /FLUSHDNS, and then reboot.
Click to expand...


Done. It does not work.

thanks for help
 
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