mapped drives

[Guest]

Hi. I have a small office network with seven computers running windows XP
Pro. I have mapped drives on the network. The connections was lost when I
wanted to share an internet connection. I remapped the drives, however the
computer cannot find the files in the mapped drives anymore.
How can I reestablish the mapped drives in my network?
Thanks for all your help!/

 

[Guest]

Ther fact that you lost access on connecting to the internet suggests a DNS
or IP-numbering problem.

If you ran the Internet Sharing Wizard, it probably replaced your existing
IP-numbering scheme in-toto, this is one of the consequences of letting a
robot that *thinks* it's clever loose on your computers!

Can you ping computers by their name? Or if not, by their IPaddress?

Have their IP addresses changed since the alterations?

Typing IPCONFIG /ALL at a command-prompt will provide useful info.

You can also try re-establishing the shares using the computer's IP address.
For example, from the command-prompt:

NET USE driveletter: \\192.168.1.14\sharename /user:username password

Obviously, replace the IP address, etc. with correct values.

BTW, I would suggest that if you have broadband, then you'd be better buying
a router and ditching ICS. Routers are very cheap now, and offer much better
security/reliability. Plus which they generally don't mess-up your internal
network!

 

[Guest]

Ther fact that you lost access on connecting to the internet suggests a DNS
or IP-numbering problem.

If you ran the Internet Sharing Wizard, it probably replaced your existing
IP-numbering scheme in-toto, this is one of the consequences of letting a
robot that *thinks* it's clever loose on your computers!

Can you ping computers by their name? Or if not, by their IPaddress?

Have their IP addresses changed since the alterations?

Typing IPCONFIG /ALL at a command-prompt will provide useful info.

You can also try re-establishing the shares using the computer's IP address.
For example, from the command-prompt:

NET USE driveletter: \\192.168.1.14\sharename /user:username password

Obviously, replace the IP address, etc. with correct values.

BTW, I would suggest that if you have broadband, then you'd be better buying
a router and ditching ICS. Routers are very cheap now, and offer much better
security/reliability. Plus which they generally don't mess-up your internal
network!

Hi Ian , thanks for the suggestions, I did remapped the drives, however,
the software I use to interact still can't find the mapped drives. no changes
have been done anywhere else. meaning that only the internet connection
sharing on the pc working as a file server was altered. I can see all my
computers in my network places.

 

[Guest]

Hi Ian , thanks for the suggestions, I did remapped the drives, however,
the software I use to interact still can't find the mapped drives. no changes
have been done anywhere else. meaning that only the internet connection
sharing on the pc working as a file server was altered. I can see all my
computers in my network places. I did ping all the computer on my network (7 all toguether) to my "server" and it went fine. For your info perhaps it help, I do have a router. The reason to wizard ics is because in my lab I use a English learnig software for our students, and I have only on pc (the Server) connected to the internet so the student don't browse the web. the rest are isolated. you would guess that I have two network adapters in my server pc, you're right. anyway, I wanted to connect all the pc's the the windows update web site by running internet connection sharing wizard. That's how my network is not reading the software any longer.