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its an xp pro box (sp1a) that is suppossed to run a logon script as it logs on the domain(win2k). the script maps 3 network drives (h:, s:, and L:). at first i thougt it wasnt running the logon script. but i tried the same account on a different computer (another xp pro box), all three network drives are there and working. so i try a different account on the originall computer. same thing. no network drives. run ipconfig, its getting its ip from the server, everything looks right, and it can ping the server. so i try manually mapping them. errors out, network path cannot be found. try doing it from a command line, same thing.

so it can physically contact the server, but for some reason it wont actually find what its looking for.

any ideas? thanks.

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Here's a few things you can try:

-Try if it'll find it by searching for its name

-Try re-running the connection wizzard (Internet Explorer>Tools>Internet Options>Connections>Setup...)

-Try to ping the remote machine, maybe you're getting blocked my a 3rd party firewall or the XP one..

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-Try if it'll find it by searching for its name

havent tried that yet, but i doubt it'll work... i tried browsing thru network neighborhood, it sees the domain (only because thats the domain it belongs to), but when you click on it.... nothing.

-Try re-running the connection wizzard (Internet Explorer>Tools>Internet Options>Connections>Setup...)

havent tried this... but the physical aspect of the connection works fine. it pings loopback, its own ip, and any other ip on the network.

-Try to ping the remote machine, maybe you're getting blocked my a 3rd party firewall or the XP one.

it pings the server (as i said in my 1st post :) ) ,as well as being able to ping every other resource on the network. the xp firewall is disabled. i also connected the problem box in another location just to rule out a line problem.

just a recap...

machine sees the server, it getting an ip from it. but i cant connect to any other network resources. it just keeps returning network path not found, even when i try to doing an administrative share to the servers c: . try logging on using different accounts; same thing. all of the accounts i tried work fine on other machines. funny thing is it worked fine yesterday. no changes since.

ms client for networks is installed, and the tcp/ip properties are all set to auto. domain name is correct also.

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this is rather annoying. plug it into the network, still cant map a network drive, nor connect to the server but......

the same server is running exchange 2000, and outlook does recieve new email on the funky box. wth?

servers fqdn is: bmlabs_main.b-mlabs.local

trying to map h:, which is a home folder, as \\bmlabs_main\username$ , network path not found

try adding a network place \\bmlabs_main\d$, same thing.

man is this infuriating.

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