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Network drives not accesable
After I upgraded my Win 7 to Win 8 can I not access my drives on the LAN network. I can ping the network. When selecting Network in Explore can I not see the network:
I can manually navigate to the device without any problem. I the Sharing centre I have Turn on automatic setup of network connected devices and Turn on file and print sharing. The network is not Win 7 / 8 so Homegroup is not the case, only regular LAN network.
The LAN adapter is part of the motherboard Realtech PCI GBE Controller. I have installed the latest driver which supports Win 8. In the process of fixing the problem I uninstalled the driver in the Device Manager and scanned for new hardware, the problem was then fixed however, only until the next reboot.
I can manually navigate to the device without any problem. I the Sharing centre I have Turn on automatic setup of network connected devices and Turn on file and print sharing. The network is not Win 7 / 8 so Homegroup is not the case, only regular LAN network.
The LAN adapter is part of the motherboard Realtech PCI GBE Controller. I have installed the latest driver which supports Win 8. In the process of fixing the problem I uninstalled the driver in the Device Manager and scanned for new hardware, the problem was then fixed however, only until the next reboot.
See if this helps...sounds like a similar situation:
http://www.eightforums.com/network-sharing/18056-w2k3-server-can-access-windows-8-windows-8-computer-cant-see-w2k-server.html
http://www.eightforums.com/network-sharing/18056-w2k3-server-can-access-windows-8-windows-8-computer-cant-see-w2k-server.html
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Hi.
Can you insert another NIC for a test?
Can you insert another NIC for a test?
Hope its connected to the right domain....try login with admin account or another user account...map drives and check.
Ded9
Ded9
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I do not know if it is a user error or lack of understanding from my side. On the WIN 7 I was able to browse directly to the folders on my network. Meaning I was able to access data directly from Explore. When I had the problem I did try to use the Map drive, but again I was not able to browse to the network drive. Today I typed in the Server Name and Folder for mapping and also as “add a network location”. Now the Mapping ok and I can browse to the network drive in Explore.
Problem is fixed, have can we close the ticket without accepting a Solution?
Problem is fixed, have can we close the ticket without accepting a Solution?
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Its fine with me.
Ded9
Ded9
Not mine... yours ;)
Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network and Sharing Center\Advanced sharing settings
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