We've been upgrading our workstations to Windows 2000 Pro. The server is Nt 4.0. The upgrade has gone smoothly for the most part. The past week, however, we've been experiencing a problem connecting to shared resources housed on various workstations.
We were connecting well for several days after the upgrade. Now, those connections seem to be broken on several machines -- when you try to navigate across the network to a specific shared resource, you receive a "network path not found" error.
This error is random -- sometimes, you can connect to shared resources with no difficulty. Other times, you can connect to some workstations, but not others. Which workstations you can connect to varies -- more workstations seem to be accessible after hours and when network traffic is low; more are inaccessible during peak usage.
The problem is not reciprocal -- at times, I can make log onto workstation A, and connect to a shared resource on workstation B, but I cannot connect from B to A.
This is *not* a security/ access privilege issue -- I have security properly set on all machines. The error happens prior to when Windows 2000 would ask for a password to make a network connection.
The error also affects Windows 98 workstations -- sometimes, Windows 2000 can see specific Windows 98 workstations on the network, but not others.
The error never impedes workstations' ability to access shared resources on the server.
I'm a bit at wits end, because at times we're having no problem at all, and then a few hours later several machines are unable to access resources stored on other workstations. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated!!!
We were connecting well for several days after the upgrade. Now, those connections seem to be broken on several machines -- when you try to navigate across the network to a specific shared resource, you receive a "network path not found" error.
This error is random -- sometimes, you can connect to shared resources with no difficulty. Other times, you can connect to some workstations, but not others. Which workstations you can connect to varies -- more workstations seem to be accessible after hours and when network traffic is low; more are inaccessible during peak usage.
The problem is not reciprocal -- at times, I can make log onto workstation A, and connect to a shared resource on workstation B, but I cannot connect from B to A.
This is *not* a security/ access privilege issue -- I have security properly set on all machines. The error happens prior to when Windows 2000 would ask for a password to make a network connection.
The error also affects Windows 98 workstations -- sometimes, Windows 2000 can see specific Windows 98 workstations on the network, but not others.
The error never impedes workstations' ability to access shared resources on the server.
I'm a bit at wits end, because at times we're having no problem at all, and then a few hours later several machines are unable to access resources stored on other workstations. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated!!!