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Keep getting the error message "No network provider accepted the given network path" while trying to browse to a UNC share within Server 2003 R2 Virtual machine.

Keep getting the error message "No network provider accepted the given network path" while trying to browse to a UNC share within Server 2003 R2 Virtual machine.

I click on the Start button and then run. Then I type in \\192.168.9.2\c$ (the IP address of the host server, which is Server 2003 for Small Business Server) and I receive this error.

The Virtual machine add-ins have already been installed.

The Server 2003 R2 Virtual machine is using a DHCP IP address.

How can I fix this?

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Browsing to these network shares using the FQDN works just fine!

However, I would also like to completely fix this issue so that I can also browse to these network shares by using their IP addresses.

What do I have to do to fix this issue?

wdurrett

HI.

Can you check and make sure you have file and print sharing turned on on your network adapter for the VM?

wdurrett

Whoops - sorry for the previous post. I did not see that you could browse to the FQDN.

In that case, can you disable windows firewall and see if it works?

bdibene

admin shares are disabled on domain controllers. Is this a DC?