Network path not found, but I can ping it!

[lksixt]

\\10.0.18.2 from run open results in network path cannot be found (also not showing up in network neighborhood, cannot connect in veritas backup selections, DNS and WINS)

but i can ping it from the command line-- using ip, sa-dc2, and the fully qualified name

does anybody have any ideas?

 

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[ShackDaddy]

The server you are trying to hit is probably listening for an SMB (or NCF or whatever it's being called now) connection, and is waiting for a valid NetBios name to open the connection. Verify what the server thinks its name is, and then create an LMOSTS entry on your client that maps to that IP. Save the file without an extension, then do an 'nbtstat -R' from the command line on the client. Then do a \\servername with whatever NET command you want to use. Win2k was supposed to have left behind reliance on NetBios names for SMB connections, but in the old world, \\IP_Address wouldn't work, since only the real computername would work. It could be that the way in which the server was set up is defaulting to the old way of listening for SMB connections.

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