Laptop UNC nightmare

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Laphan

Hi All

Our school has 4 identical Fujitsu laptops running WinXP Pro SP2 / NTFS file
sys, but I cannot get one of them to see our server via UNC.

This laptop:

a) can get to the internet
b) gets it's tcp/ip details from the server's dhcp server correctly
c) does not have the firewall on
d) has no internet security software installed such as Norton
e) can ping the server
f) the tcp/ip main window tick boxes, eg file&print sharing, are all ticked.

but if I do \\servername\ it says it can't find the path found - whaaattt??

The other 3 laptops just found it and I could carry on copying files in
seconds. By the way, this server is a Win2k3 server so it isn't a
connections issue and my task is to get the data off the laptop onto the
server and then add it to the domain.

What on earth could be stopping me getting to the server through UNC?

Thanks
 
Hello Laphan,

Please post an ipconfig /all from the machine. Do you have added an external
DNS server to NIC seetings? DNS configuration should only be internal to
work correctly. Or is the computer multihomed (more then one configured NIC)?

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Meinolf Weber
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> Hi All
>
> Our school has 4 identical Fujitsu laptops running WinXP Pro SP2 /
> NTFS file sys, but I cannot get one of them to see our server via UNC.
>
> This laptop:
>
> a) can get to the internet
> b) gets it's tcp/ip details from the server's dhcp server correctly
> c) does not have the firewall on
> d) has no internet security software installed such as Norton
> e) can ping the server
> f) the tcp/ip main window tick boxes, eg file&print sharing, are all
> ticked.
> but if I do \\servername\ it says it can't find the path found -
> whaaattt??
>
> The other 3 laptops just found it and I could carry on copying files
> in seconds. By the way, this server is a Win2k3 server so it isn't a
> connections issue and my task is to get the data off the laptop onto
> the server and then add it to the domain.
>
> What on earth could be stopping me getting to the server through UNC?
>
> Thanks
>
 
"Laphan" <admin@DontSpam.com> wrote in message
news:%23yQm4tpOIHA.5988@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Hi All
>
> Our school has 4 identical Fujitsu laptops running WinXP Pro SP2 / NTFS
> file
> sys, but I cannot get one of them to see our server via UNC.
>
> This laptop:
>
> a) can get to the internet
> b) gets it's tcp/ip details from the server's dhcp server correctly
> c) does not have the firewall on
> d) has no internet security software installed such as Norton
> e) can ping the server
> f) the tcp/ip main window tick boxes, eg file&print sharing, are all
> ticked.
>
> but if I do \\servername\ it says it can't find the path found -
> whaaattt??
>
> The other 3 laptops just found it and I could carry on copying files in
> seconds. By the way, this server is a Win2k3 server so it isn't a
> connections issue and my task is to get the data off the laptop onto the
> server and then add it to the domain.
>
> What on earth could be stopping me getting to the server through UNC?
>
> Thanks

I find that sometimes, and I just demonstrated this to myself again today
with a Server install, Windows systems cannot see other Windows systems on
the same network if IPX/SPX is not installed. Go to Network Connections,
right-click the adapter and choose Properties, then Add, Protocol, IPX/SPX.

The server I'd just installed could see every system on the network *except*
for this XP Pro thinkpad that I'm writing on, and it couldn't find it by any
means including UNC. That changed the instant I installed IPX/SPX on the
server's network adapter.

HTH
-pk
 
Patrick Keenan <test@dev.null> wrote:
> "Laphan" <admin@DontSpam.com> wrote in message
> news:%23yQm4tpOIHA.5988@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Hi All
>>
>> Our school has 4 identical Fujitsu laptops running WinXP Pro SP2 /
>> NTFS file
>> sys, but I cannot get one of them to see our server via UNC.
>>
>> This laptop:
>>
>> a) can get to the internet
>> b) gets it's tcp/ip details from the server's dhcp server correctly
>> c) does not have the firewall on
>> d) has no internet security software installed such as Norton
>> e) can ping the server
>> f) the tcp/ip main window tick boxes, eg file&print sharing, are all
>> ticked.
>>
>> but if I do \\servername\ it says it can't find the path found -
>> whaaattt??
>>
>> The other 3 laptops just found it and I could carry on copying files
>> in seconds. By the way, this server is a Win2k3 server so it isn't a
>> connections issue and my task is to get the data off the laptop onto
>> the server and then add it to the domain.
>>
>> What on earth could be stopping me getting to the server through UNC?
>>
>> Thanks
>
> I find that sometimes, and I just demonstrated this to myself again
> today with a Server install, Windows systems cannot see other Windows
> systems on the same network if IPX/SPX is not installed. Go to
> Network Connections, right-click the adapter and choose Properties,
> then Add, Protocol, IPX/SPX.
> The server I'd just installed could see every system on the network
> *except* for this XP Pro thinkpad that I'm writing on, and it
> couldn't find it by any means including UNC. That changed the
> instant I installed IPX/SPX on the server's network adapter.
>
> HTH
> -pk


Ouch. I don't recommend this. If you're having problems with networking,
adding additional protocols to the stack is not the answer!
 
Patrick Keenan <test@dev.null> wrote:
> "Laphan" <admin@DontSpam.com> wrote in message
> news:%23yQm4tpOIHA.5988@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Hi All
>>
>> Our school has 4 identical Fujitsu laptops running WinXP Pro SP2 /
>> NTFS file
>> sys, but I cannot get one of them to see our server via UNC.
>>
>> This laptop:
>>
>> a) can get to the internet
>> b) gets it's tcp/ip details from the server's dhcp server correctly
>> c) does not have the firewall on
>> d) has no internet security software installed such as Norton
>> e) can ping the server
>> f) the tcp/ip main window tick boxes, eg file&print sharing, are all
>> ticked.
>>
>> but if I do \\servername\ it says it can't find the path found -
>> whaaattt??
>>
>> The other 3 laptops just found it and I could carry on copying files
>> in seconds. By the way, this server is a Win2k3 server so it isn't a
>> connections issue and my task is to get the data off the laptop onto
>> the server and then add it to the domain.
>>
>> What on earth could be stopping me getting to the server through UNC?
>>
>> Thanks
>
> I find that sometimes, and I just demonstrated this to myself again
> today with a Server install, Windows systems cannot see other Windows
> systems on the same network if IPX/SPX is not installed. Go to
> Network Connections, right-click the adapter and choose Properties,
> then Add, Protocol, IPX/SPX.
> The server I'd just installed could see every system on the network
> *except* for this XP Pro thinkpad that I'm writing on, and it
> couldn't find it by any means including UNC. That changed the
> instant I installed IPX/SPX on the server's network adapter.
>
> HTH
> -pk
 
No, that's absolutely not necessary.

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"Patrick Keenan"wrote:
> I find that sometimes, and I just demonstrated this to myself again today
> with a Server install, Windows systems cannot see other Windows systems on
> the same network if IPX/SPX is not installed. Go to Network
> Connections, right-click the adapter and choose Properties, then Add,
> Protocol, IPX/SPX.
>
> The server I'd just installed could see every system on the network
> *except* for this XP Pro thinkpad that I'm writing on, and it couldn't
> find it by any means including UNC. That changed the instant I installed
> IPX/SPX on the server's network adapter.
>
> HTH
> -pk
>
 
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