Lost My Shared Folders

[Bob Phillips]

I have a small home network, and I had a network shared folder on the
desktop, and mapped to that folder on my laptops.

All was working great, until a couple of days ago. Now I cannot get to the
shared folder, says

An error occurred wile reconnecting S: to \\XLd01\network share
Microsoft Windows Network : The network path was not found.
The connection as not been restored.

The only change that I can think might affect is that I tried to setup an
FTP site on my machine (failed dismally). I have deleted that, although I
still have the IIS settings, but that seems to be the same timeframe.

Any suggestions as to how I can track down the problem.

I have XP Pro.

 

[Anteaus]

First, try pinging the server by name, and then by IP address:

ping XLd01

ping 10.10.10.4 (use actual IP of course)

If the latter doesn't work (request timed out) you have a fairly fundamental
network problem. Which in view of the ftp tests might just be that your
computer's IP address has been changed, so it's outside of the server's
subnet.

If the latter works but not the former, then there is a problem resolving
the server's name. In this case a LMHOSTS entry is often the simplest
workaround for a small network.

 

[Bob Phillips]

Neither works, they both timeout.

How can my computer's IP address have been changed? They are allocated by my
network router from the default gateway IP address, and that machine has the
same IP address that it always has had.

So any ideas on what I can do to resolve the problem in the light of this?



Bob

 

[Chuck [MVP]]

I have a small home network, and I had a network shared folder on the
desktop, and mapped to that folder on my laptops.

All was working great, until a couple of days ago. Now I cannot get to the
shared folder, says

An error occurred wile reconnecting S: to \\XLd01\network share
Microsoft Windows Network : The network path was not found.
The connection as not been restored.

The only change that I can think might affect is that I tried to setup an
FTP site on my machine (failed dismally). I have deleted that, although I
still have the IIS settings, but that seems to be the same timeframe.

Any suggestions as to how I can track down the problem.

I have XP Pro.

Bob,

The error "The network path was not found." is a name resolution problem.
<http://networking.nitecruzr.net/2005/06/mysterious-error-53-aka-name-not-found.html>
http://networking.nitecruzr.net/2005/06/mysterious-error-53-aka-name-not-found.html

To diagnose the problem, look at logs from "browstat status", "ipconfig /all",
"net config server", and "net config workstation", from the desktop computer and
one laptop computer. Read this article, and linked articles, and follow
instructions precisely (download browstat!):
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/troubleshooting-network-neighborhood.html#AskingForHelp>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/troubleshooting-network-neighborhood.html#AskingForHelp