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The specified network name is no longer available

Asked by: facedown98

Hello Experts,

I currently have a simple home network in use. I have an assorted number of Virtual Machines on the host PC. For some reason I experience the error message "The specified network name is no longer available." My Host PC has a shared folder setup without any restrictions. Anyone can view/change the files within this shared folder. My physical PCs in the house are just fine. The virtual machines however receive that error message when attempting to download files from the shared folder. Smaller files that are one or two MB seem to download just fine --- anything larger prompts that error. This happens on all virtual machines and makes no difference if static IP addresses are setup or not.

I also use ZoneAlarm as a firewall. I have added one of my virtual machines (which has a static IP assigned) to the trusted list. The virtual PC does not have a firewall active (I disabled the Windows firewall).

The software being used for the virtual PCs is VMware Workstation 6.0.4

All PCs are Windows XP Professional SP3 however two of the physical PCs without any problems run XP Home SP3.

The funny thing is that they can see the files but can't download anything significant.

Please help if you can! Thanks!

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2009-04-19 at 15:54:52ID24336103
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Answers

 

by: houssam_balloutPosted on 2009-04-19 at 16:02:50ID: 24181013

had you try to copy from a different shared folder?

 

by: facedown98Posted on 2009-04-19 at 16:52:46ID: 24181162

Hi,

Yes, I have tried creating a new shared folder with the same result.

 

by: houssam_balloutPosted on 2009-04-20 at 04:45:51ID: 24183606

had you try to create a folder on different PC

 

by: facedown98Posted on 2009-04-20 at 16:14:47ID: 24189608

They can share between each other. I'll try from a different physical PC and see if the virtual machines can download from it. Thanks

 

by: facedown98Posted on 2009-04-20 at 18:52:51ID: 24190250

Here's an interesting one... Last night I was able to see the files but could not download them... Today, NONE of my PCs can access ANY network shares from the Host PC (\\morpheus)

I made a new share even and when I navigate to that new share I get the same message.

Here's what happens...

When I try to open the share I get this message first stating that "The network name could not be found."

When I try a second time I see a different message which states "Not enough server storage is available to process this command."

I have attached screenshots for both. I'm not sure why I get these... The host PC has plenty of resources... Plenty of processing speed, RAM and hard disk storage.

Any idea?

Thanks!

 

by: facedown98Posted on 2009-04-20 at 18:54:29ID: 24190257

I would also like to mention that I setup a share on my laptop to test with, and it acts just fine as a host. Seems like there's something wrong with the current host PC. Any idea what it is?

Thanks!

 

by: houssam_balloutPosted on 2009-04-20 at 22:53:53ID: 24191211

Do you have any NTFS permission error?

 

by: facedown98Posted on 2009-04-21 at 04:29:25ID: 24193061

I don't get any messages about one. The permissions seem clean --- making new shares in different locations helps as well.

 

by: houssam_balloutPosted on 2009-04-21 at 04:47:10ID: 24193184

Do you mean that creating new  share on different location works well? (physical one)

 

by: houssam_balloutPosted on 2009-04-21 at 04:48:24ID: 24193197

Do you mean that creating new  share on different location works well? (physical one)

 

by: jassavPosted on 2009-04-21 at 08:00:03ID: 24195174

Check the which services are running, particulary the computer browser service.

 

by: facedown98Posted on 2009-04-21 at 20:06:55ID: 24201164

Houssam, yes creating a share on another physical PC works just fine.

Hi Jassav, yes the service is running but it does not help.

Thanks!

 

by: facedown98Posted on 2009-05-03 at 17:43:46ID: 24291922

It seems that VMware was the culprit. Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 does not have the same issues. This limits the issue to VMware. Possibly a bug within the application. Thanks for your help anyway!

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