Problem mapping network drives

[ashplatoon86]

Hi Guys, im new to the forum so be gentle - this wont be a 1 post and leave either

So whats happening is im replacing a staff members computer , she has windows xp and has 4 network drives mapped, ive built her a new machine and have installed windows xp on it, and connect it up using the same network cables, how ever when i go to map the drive i get "The network path \\Fileserver1\SCHEDDAT could not be found" , yet when i re-hook up her old system and boot it up it all connect fine....so in a nut shell why does the old one connect fine , but the new build cant access the drives? i have disabled the firewall also....thanks in advance for any help offered.

Ash

 

[ashplatoon86]

Ok so some progress on this, if i share a drive on a local computer plugged into the same router or switch then map to it, i can connect no problems, how ever connecting to the 2 servers seems to be the issue, oddly enough also even when using the EXACT same cables that the other computer that connect fine uses, it still wont connect.

 

[DelJo63]

It sounds like you're in a Domain Controller environment.

The new system will need to JOIN the domain before you can access the fileshares.

 

[ashplatoon86]

Yeah that sounds about right actually, how do you go about joining a domain then? im new to this networking business.

 

[ashplatoon86]

ok intersting update, seems the servers are not domain based there all under the workgroup name "DOMAIN", I have added the pc to that work group, but it cant see the server and the server can not see the computer...again odd as i am using the same ports as the old system uses and connects fine.

 

[DelJo63]

be sure you reboot after the workgroup name change

 

[ashplatoon86]

Problem sorted, i had to manually configure the ip address of the network port on the pc, as the servers work on 2 rings - 192.168.0 and 192.168.1, the drives i needed to map were on 0 and the pc was automatically set to 1, i manually changed the i.p and hey presto, job sorted.