administrative share via unc not working

Hello

After renaming a few of our servers I see that the administrative share
via unc is no longer working, giving the error message "\\server1\c$ the
network path was not found". However, using ip-adress works fine
(\\192.168.0.1\c$).

Is this a bug in windows and more importantly, how can I correct it?


/daniel heimburg


Daniel Heimburg

I would check the DNS and WINS records first. Can you net view \\server1?

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
"Daniel Heimburg" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
Hello

After renaming a few of our servers I see that the administrative share
via unc is no longer working, giving the error message "\\server1\c$ the
network path was not found". However, using ip-adress works fine
(\\192.168.0.1\c$).

Is this a bug in windows and more importantly, how can I correct it?


/daniel heimburg

Hello

DNS is fine and we dont use WINS (win2k3 native domain).
I can view \\server1 without any problems same goes with file://\\server1.

/daniel heimburg

Robert L [MS-MVP] wrote:
> I would check the DNS and WINS records first. Can you net view \\server1
> <file://\\server1>?
>
> 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
>
> "Daniel Heimburg" <(E-Mail Removed) <private.php?do=newpm&u=>>
> wrote in message news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello
>
> After renaming a few of our servers I see that the administrative share
> via unc is no longer working, giving the error message "\\server1\c$
> <file://\\server1\c$> the
> network path was not found". However, using ip-adress works fine
> (\\192.168.0.1\c$ <file://\\192.168.0.1\c$>).
>
> Is this a bug in windows and more importantly, how can I correct it?
>
>
> /daniel heimburg

I want to point out that this phenomena only happends on renamed
servers, the non renamed servers works fine with \\server\c$

/daniel heimburg

Daniel Heimburg wrote:
> Hello
>
> DNS is fine and we dont use WINS (win2k3 native domain).
> I can view \\server1 without any problems same goes with file://\\server1.
>
> /daniel heimburg
>
> Robert L [MS-MVP] wrote:
>
>> I would check the DNS and WINS records first. Can you net view
>> \\server1 <file://\\server1>?
>>
>> 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
>>
>> "Daniel Heimburg" <(E-Mail Removed) <private.php?do=newpm&u=>>
>> wrote in message news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Hello
>>
>> After renaming a few of our servers I see that the administrative
>> share
>> via unc is no longer working, giving the error message "\\server1\c$
>> <file://\\server1\c$> the
>> network path was not found". However, using ip-adress works fine
>> (\\192.168.0.1\c$ <file://\\192.168.0.1\c$>).
>>
>> Is this a bug in windows and more importantly, how can I correct it?
>>
>>
>> /daniel heimburg