Mapped Drives Issues

I have a W98se machine on a W2K domain with DNS and WINS, which all of a
sudden stopped being able to connect to one of the users mapped drives. I
thought it might be a naming issue, since the shared folder had a two word
name, so I created share names with both an underscore and hyphen between the
two words, but that didn't solve the problem. When I try to connect using the
Map Network Drive after right-clicking My Computer, I get the error "The
computer or sharename could not be found". When I try to connect using
Start>>>Run, I get "\\xxx\xxx does not exist". I have been able to map the
drive successfully in DOS prompt using the Net Use command, but am unable to
use the /persistent switch, so that the user has to manually remap after each
logon. Can anyone tell me what's going on with this maddening machine?
Thanks.

"maitakeboy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I have a W98se machine on a W2K domain with DNS and WINS, which all of a
> sudden stopped being able to connect to one of the users mapped drives. I
> thought it might be a naming issue, since the shared folder had a two word
> name, so I created share names with both an underscore and hyphen between
> the
> two words, but that didn't solve the problem. When I try to connect using
> the
> Map Network Drive after right-clicking My Computer, I get the error "The
> computer or sharename could not be found". When I try to connect using
> Start>>>Run, I get "\\xxx\xxx does not exist". I have been able to map the
> drive successfully in DOS prompt using the Net Use command, but am unable
> to
> use the /persistent switch, so that the user has to manually remap after
> each
> logon. Can anyone tell me what's going on with this maddening machine?
> Thanks.

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