Ok, this is starting to nark me off.

Here's the deal:
We have various machines here (Canada) and a nice shiny new server in the UK. I can quite happliy connect to the server using AFP from my Macintosh, plus it's acting as our mailserver, and that's working, so I know it's up and running.

The problem is that I cannot get any of our PC's (Win 2000 Server, Win 2003 Server, and XP) to map to a share on that server. I have tried the "Map Network Drive" option and have also tried the sub-option in there about "sign up for online storage or to connect to a remote server".

I'm entering the location correctly: \\servername\sharename
I'm making sure I've set the user name and password to that of a user who can access the new server.

None of this is working though. I keep getting errors such as "network path cannot be found"

So, any ideas what is going on here? We've checked out the firewalls here and in the UK and it's allowing all traffic from the correct ranges of IP addresses. BTW: what port(s) does SMB transmit over and is it UDP or TCP (or something else?)

TIA

 

try via ip address..

IE \\192.168.100.1\c$

can you ping the box?

Drop me a mail - davidwallis@gmail.com if you want some quicker advice or I can go on msn