accessing netowrked drives

one of our sites is connected to head office via a vpn connection from a
watchguard soho 6 to a x700 firewall.
The users in this site are having issues accessing mapped drives on our file
server.
A logon script maps the various drives with no problems, however when you
click to access these drives the machine hangs and then returns an error
stating
"Error occured while reconnecting N: to \\filename\sharename
Microsoft Windows Network : The local device name is already in use
this connection has not been restored"
if you try to use start>run to access it, it comes back saying you don't
have permssion to access the network resource - the specified network name is
no longer available. This happens whether you use a unc or IP address
Orginally i thought this was an issue with the firewall but i can map drives
to other servers without issue.
the firewall allows any traffic between the networks and has been a problem
before. There haven't been any network changes we are aware of that would
have caused this problem.
Permissions are fine as no other users or sites have the issue.
i have disconnected all the drives and run the script again and still fails.
machines have been restarted.
i have checked that netbios is enabled on the server.
Also checked there were no locks on the shares.

One thing i have noticed is in all our sites when you browse the network in
network places you can only see machines within that site.

Help please i'm stumped!!

cheers

Craig

Sounds like master browser issue. Do you have WINS servers?

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Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
"Craig Barraclough" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:6D5CA803-A972-4753-BA5F-(E-Mail Removed)...
one of our sites is connected to head office via a vpn connection from a
watchguard soho 6 to a x700 firewall.
The users in this site are having issues accessing mapped drives on our file
server.
A logon script maps the various drives with no problems, however when you
click to access these drives the machine hangs and then returns an error
stating
"Error occured while reconnecting N: to \\filename\sharename
Microsoft Windows Network : The local device name is already in use
this connection has not been restored"
if you try to use start>run to access it, it comes back saying you don't
have permssion to access the network resource - the specified network name is
no longer available. This happens whether you use a unc or IP address
Orginally i thought this was an issue with the firewall but i can map drives
to other servers without issue.
the firewall allows any traffic between the networks and has been a problem
before. There haven't been any network changes we are aware of that would
have caused this problem.
Permissions are fine as no other users or sites have the issue.
i have disconnected all the drives and run the script again and still fails.
machines have been restarted.
i have checked that netbios is enabled on the server.
Also checked there were no locks on the shares.

One thing i have noticed is in all our sites when you browse the network in
network places you can only see machines within that site.

Help please i'm stumped!!

cheers

Craig

I looked at the master browser, i checked the registery on the server that
should be the master browser and the registry keys were set correct. however
when i used browstat to check the master browser it came up with another
server. i checked this server and the master browser was set to false.
I have just added WINS to the network today to see if that helps.

"Robert L [MVP - Networking]" wrote:

> Sounds like master browser issue. Do you have WINS servers?
>
> Computer Browser How do I know I have a browser problem How to disable Master Browser in XP, 9X, W2k How to fix browsing problem in a mixed OS workgroup ...
> www.chicagotech.net/browser.htm
>
>
> Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
> Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
> How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
> "Craig Barraclough" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:6D5CA803-A972-4753-BA5F-(E-Mail Removed)...
> one of our sites is connected to head office via a vpn connection from a
> watchguard soho 6 to a x700 firewall.
> The users in this site are having issues accessing mapped drives on our file
> server.
> A logon script maps the various drives with no problems, however when you
> click to access these drives the machine hangs and then returns an error
> stating
> "Error occured while reconnecting N: to \\filename\sharename
> Microsoft Windows Network : The local device name is already in use
> this connection has not been restored"
> if you try to use start>run to access it, it comes back saying you don't
> have permssion to access the network resource - the specified network name is
> no longer available. This happens whether you use a unc or IP address
> Orginally i thought this was an issue with the firewall but i can map drives
> to other servers without issue.
> the firewall allows any traffic between the networks and has been a problem
> before. There haven't been any network changes we are aware of that would
> have caused this problem.
> Permissions are fine as no other users or sites have the issue.
> i have disconnected all the drives and run the script again and still fails.
> machines have been restarted.
> i have checked that netbios is enabled on the server.
> Also checked there were no locks on the shares.
>
> One thing i have noticed is in all our sites when you browse the network in
> network places you can only see machines within that site.
>
> Help please i'm stumped!!
>
> cheers
>
> Craig