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    soundworks Posts: 1, Reputation: 1
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    Nov 28, 2008, 08:59 PM
    Mapping network drive over wired/wireless network
    Hello. I have a problem and have been looking for an answer for a week or two now. I hope someone here can help me because it's hard for our business to function without this mapped drive.

    Here's the deal. I manage my company's network, which was until recently shared between two buildings by a single cat5 cable. It's five computers on one side and two on the other, a mix of winXP and win2000. We have a DLink DIR-825 connecting the computers on the store side, and this powers a Trendnet AP on the roof that mirrors another Trendnet AP on the roof of the warehouse. This second AP currently runs directly into the one computer I have to be able to talk to. We now have internet access between the buildings and I can browse all the computers on the network, but our POS program has to be able to map to the server in the second building and it can no longer do it.

    Is there something about mapping over a wireless segment that I don't know about? The AP's aren't set up to be an ethernet bridge, it wouldn't work that way. I have the first one set up as a wireless repeater and the second as an AP. Any ideas? All help greatly appreciated.

    Thanks,

    soundworks
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    Nov 29, 2008, 08:09 AM

    Use the "NET VIEW" command prompt command and see if the share is visible. Are you mapping the drive via computer name or IP address. Try by IP address mapping.

    I don't know why, you would think that a wireless bridge would not work unless my understanding is wrong.
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    Nov 30, 2008, 09:56 PM

    First of all, can you ping the server from the computer that will not map a drive?

    Are you using a hidden share? In other words, does the share name end in a dollar sign?
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    Aug 9, 2009, 04:14 PM
    Hi:
    I have a similar problem.
    I have a wireless PC and want to access network drive.
    The network drives location is stufiles.com.fakeaddress.com, what might be the reason I can not ping stufiles.com.fakeaddress.com ?

    More background information.Our university offers terminal service, once I logged into windows server 2008 via RDP:
    I am able to map drive "\\stufiles\users$\username", and "ping stufiles" is successful.
    Net view would prints out stufiles

    If I use a desktop using cable connection at university, I can map the drive to that desktop.

    However if I connect to the wireless network, net view returns"
    The list of servers for this workgroup is not currently avaliable Error 6118"

    Any help would be appreciated.
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