"broken" network share

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From: Kirkee (Kirkee_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/20/04 

Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 17:33:05 -0700

I've got some manufacturing controls software running on a group of server
2003 boxes. When I install that software it creates a couple network shares
on each server to which it is installed. These are immediately visible to me
in the top half of the My Network Places window under the Internet heading.

The servers are on a domain that I do NOT have admin rights on. Today the
sys admin changed all the server names and added them back to the domain with
the changed names.

My network shares still show up in My Network Places but are "broken" -
under the computer column they show 'unknown' and if you double-click to
browse the share it says the location is unaccessible. And I know that
because the share is still targeted to the servers former PC name. If I rt
click the network share the target computer is the old name but doesn't
permit me to change it.

I have re-added a few by hand by choosing to "Add Network Place" in My
Network Places and entering all the data manually. Once I get the required
ones "reset" my manufacturing software is happy again.

I have several servers each with several shares. I would prefer to somehow
auto-detect or auto-correct these targets rather than re-build by hand on all
the servers. Any suggestions?

I can browse to the shares and use UNC naming so I know the shares are out
there and named as I expect. I've also tried taking the share off the
folder, restarting server and re-adding share but it still doesn't get those
network shares re-connected.

thanx for any help!!

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