Attempt to Map a HardDrive to a Local Computer Fails
From time to time I have seen where attempts to map a harddrive to local Windows server fails with the some these errors:
- “System error 67 has occurred. - The network name cannot be found”
- “System error 53 has occurred. - The network path was not found”
- “No network provider accepted the given network path”
- “The RPC Server is unavailable”
There are other errors but I found those are most common. I also seen where this is commonly a DNS type issue and I have used the following steps to troubleshoot the issue:
- Attempt to connect to the target server via IP address e.g: net view \\IP_Address; (if this works then is a name resolution problem).
- Try a ping -a IP_Address to see if is resolves to a name
- Verify that the network connection TCP/IP settins are correct( Ensure DNS entries are correct).
- From a CMD prompt type ipconfig /all and verify settings
- From the CMD prompt type nslookup hostname DNS_server_IP; (For help with nslookup check out: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;200525)
- Verify that the you domain suffix is configured correctly (Located in the Advanced TCP/IP properties of the NIC)
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