Hello,

I am having trouble connecting to a share on an AS/400
machine. It was working just fine but suddenly it will
not connect. When I try and open the share I get the
follwing message: "An error occurred while reconnecting E:
to \\<servername>\<share>. Microsoft Windows Network: The
local device name is already in use. This connection has
not been restored."

If I try and re-map the drive I get the following
message: "The mapped network drive could not be created
because the following error has occurred: The remote
computer is not available."

I have tried to access the shares on the AS/400 via
software and I get a message that is too long to type in
but the jist of it is that the AS/400 server is not known
to either a DNS in my network or to my local LMHOSTS file
or the DNS is not available. It the told me to try and do
one of the following: Check the status of my DNS and add a
new entry for the AS/400 server or and the entry to the
LMHOSTS file.

Here is my problem. I am very green when it comes to this
AS/400 and to the DNS on our network. How can I check the
status of the DNS and add a new entry if I need to? Any
help on this is going to be greatly appreciated as I am at
a total loss as to how to rectify this problem.

Thank you in advance.

Chris

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Then Kevin made his reply below:
> Hello,
>
> I am having trouble connecting to a share on an AS/400
> machine. It was working just fine but suddenly it will
> not connect. When I try and open the share I get the
> follwing message: "An error occurred while reconnecting E:
> to \\<servername>\<share>. Microsoft Windows Network: The
> local device name is already in use. This connection has
> not been restored."
>
> If I try and re-map the drive I get the following
> message: "The mapped network drive could not be created
> because the following error has occurred: The remote
> computer is not available."
>
> I have tried to access the shares on the AS/400 via
> software and I get a message that is too long to type in
> but the jist of it is that the AS/400 server is not known
> to either a DNS in my network or to my local LMHOSTS file
> or the DNS is not available. It the told me to try and do
> one of the following: Check the status of my DNS and add a
> new entry for the AS/400 server or and the entry to the
> LMHOSTS file.
>
> Here is my problem. I am very green when it comes to this
> AS/400 and to the DNS on our network. How can I check the
> status of the DNS and add a new entry if I need to? Any
> help on this is going to be greatly appreciated as I am at
> a total loss as to how to rectify this problem.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Chris

Use the DNS console open the forward lookup zone for your domain click new
host give it the name of the AS/400 and the IP address needed to access the
AS/400.
Then use the FQDN to map your drives i.e. \\as400.domain.com\share

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