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Question about mapping network drives

Hi,
I have a question about mapping network drives.

I have a shared folder on server 1, but server 1 is on a different domain than the workstation.
( Ex: Server : server1.tall.tree.com & Workstation: workstation.tree.com)

How would I go about mapping this shared folder on server1 to the workstation?

I have tried H:\\server1tall.tree.com\shared folder & H:\\server1\shared folder

Neither one worked. Just came back saying it could not find the network path.

Thank you for your time.

Bob

MSE-dwells

Like this (at least from a command prompt) -

net use H: server1tall.tree.com\shared folder
^
NOTE - the space

MSE-dwells

Ooops ... I inadvertently cut off the prefix, let's try that again -

Like this (at least from a command prompt) -

net use H: \\server1tall.tree.com\share
^
NOTE - the space

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ctbtech

dlan75 is right. You just have permissions issue.

Rob Siddell

if all else fails and you are not having luck using the server name you can always resort to using the server ip (ex. net use h: \\10.0.0.1\share )

MSE-dwells

FWIW - I'm not convinced this is related to permission since I would expect a more indicative error, e.g. -

System error 5 has occurred.

Access is denied.

dgriffit55

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Actually, I solved my own issue. Like I said, I am new to this position and having to figure out a lot of "why did they do that?" type of scenario's. So, anyways, the server1 had Zone Alarm installed and it was blocking the workstation by IP. Go figure.

Thanks anyways.

Bob

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