Re: Mapping a network drive

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From: Pegasus \(MVP\) (I.can_at_fly.com)
Date: 07/09/04 

Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 22:32:10 +1000

"Adam" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2a59c01c465ae$c1efa740$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> I have a server running windows 2000 and 10 clients
> running the same. Each computer relies on the server to
> administer test that students take. Today the server went
> belly up and I reinstalled WIN 2000. All 10 computers are
> networked and running off the server just fine. The
> problem is, is I cannot get the server to cough up a
> shared folder so I can map it to the 10 clients. I have
> the folder shared on the server and as I logon as a
> student the shared folder will not show. I click on
> tools, map network drive, select my drive letter, and when
> I select the work group, all 10 computers, plus the server
> are displayed, but when I click on the plus sign for the
> server nothing shows. What have I forgotten to
> configure. Thank you for your help.
>

It seems you don't have a "server"; you have a Win2000
Professional Workstation pretending to be a server. This
is likely to cause some problems because it will not allow
you to maintain more than 10 concurrent connections.

About your "invisible" shares: I would look at these things:
- Are all machines, including the "server", in the same
  workgroup? What is its name?
- Did you turn off your internal firewalls during testing?
  What about those integrated with your virus scanner?
- What do you get when you start a Command Prompt
  on one of the workstations and issue this command:
  net use x: \\YourServer\YourShare
- Did you create one account for each student on your
  "server"?
- Did you set appropriate permissions for the share on
  your "server"?
- Did you set appropriate NTFS permissions for the
  share folder on your "server"?

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