MS Windows Me, dialing up to Samba

[Scott Ehrlich]

I once had problems mapping network drives on an NT 4.0 network (no UNIX
involved) using Network Neighborhood's map network drive.  I ended up, for
whatever reason, needing to use the command line 
'net use \\server\directory' to make the mapping work.

Try it and let us know how it works out.

Scott

On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Mac wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> 	I expect this problem's already been spotted by many people, if
> you've got a solution, I'd love to hear it!
> 
> I've set up Dial-Up Networking on a Windows Millennium Edition PC.  The
> dial up is fine, the ISP is working OKay, web browsing etc all works
> fine.
> 
> I can even telnet to my Samba server.
> 
> However, I can't make any drive mappings, nor even do a 'net view'.
> 
> Error messages are as follows:-
> 
> Attempting to map a drive letter (using Explorer|Tools|Map Network Drive)
> 
> 	The following error occured while trying to connect 
> 	h: to \\hostname\homes
> 
> 	Windows is unable to gain access to the network.  This may be for
> 	a number of reasons.
> 
> Typing 'Net View' into a DOS box:-
> 
> 	Error 3545: You cannot start or stop the network from within an
> 	MS-DOS window
> 
> 
> There is no difference in these messages if I select 'Logon to network'
> in the DUN properties for the connection I'm using.  The 'Logging on to
> network...' text is displayed during the dialing session, but (I'm
> guessing) it's not actually working.
> 
> HELP!
> 
> Anyone any ideas.  Please.
> 
> 
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