Viewing/Displaying mapped drives

[cmegha2001]

Hello All,

Wierd thing going on: Win XP Pro SP2 on Tablet PC:

User logs onto network drives get mapped and is able view/access normally. Unplugs network to take tablet into meetings user comes back plugs back into network. Drives connect but is unable to view any contents... Verified My Computer does not show drives disconnected. Any Thoughts would be great. Thanks in advance.

cmegha

 

[bcastner]

ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew

If no joy, right-click the network icon in the notification tray and hit Repair.

XP is relatively lazy about renewing DHCP obtained IP addresses. See:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;167014&Product=win2000

Depending on the driver set for the network adapter, you may want to right click the notification tray icon for the network connection and select disable. Then move the machine. On restoring the network connection, do an right-click again, Enable, and the a right-click Repair.

 

[cmegha2001]

Not a IP addressing issue, users Outlook connects to the mail server once he plugs back into the network. Thanks anyway, I will continue re-searching.

 

[bcastner]

Start, Run, CMD
netsh winsock reset catalog

Wait for the prompt. Reboot.

You should only have to do this once.

 

[cmegha2001]

What is the syntax for this command. I think I'm typing it wrong:
"netsh winsock reset catalog"

The following command not found: winsock reset catalog

Thanks

 

[bcastner]

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/winsock.htm