Re: VPN and Mapping Drives

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From: Pawan Agarwal \(MSFT\) (pawana_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/27/05 

Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:29:51 +0530

Are the 3 mapping which are failing are always same? If so for the failing
drive mappings try to ping the remote machines to see if machines are
reachable.

I hope these machines are in your private network over which ping will not
be disabled. 

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"Tomster" <tomster@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:FE7BD819-44DC-4934-8603-2A8E4E8A4365@microsoft.com...
> Server is W2K SP4
> Laptops are XP Pro SP2
>
> Logging into VPN, then trying to map 5 drives by using a batch file.
>
> 2 drives map reliably.   3 do not.  Error is always: System error 53 has
> occured - network path not found.
>
> If I take the same VPN settings and login... and the same batch file... 
> and
> use them on a SP1 XP Pro machine... all 5 map reliably, repeatably, 
> happily,
> consistently etc.
>
> XP SP2 firewall is disabled.
>
> I have assigned permissions and security settings on the shared folders 
> for
> the mappings letter for letter identical.
>
> HOSTS and LMHOSTS files on both machines are identical.
>
> Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
> -- 
> Tomster

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