XP Home red cross on Mapped drive from ME server.

[simonthetechie]

1. 3 systems:
1 Laptop running XP Home
1 PC running XP Home
1 PC (used as server) running Win ME

*Win ME system has Sage Line 50 installed and client does not want to move it to other PC's so installing it on another is out.

2. When either of the XP machines is first turned on/rebooted, the mapped drive from the ME machines shows in Windows Explorer/My Computer as disconnected with a Red Cross. When clicked on it reconnects as normal, however if Sage is run off a client (either XP system) without doing this first, then Sage reports that it cannot find its files (stored on the mapped drive).

This does not appear to be the Connection Timeout problem
(plus that is not supposed to be an issue with ME - or is it?).

 

[cadaveca]

you've mapped the drive, but in order for the other pc's to connect to it the me machine should be the first to boot...i think we need a little more details to get it solved

 

[simonthetechie]

1. The Windows ME machine is turned on first.
2. DHCP was used orignally (the XP PC runs WinProxy fro Internet sharing), but that made Sage reports very slow (SAGE.COM website has advice suggesting you use fixed a fixed IP address on your SAGE server machine - but that's another problem for later....)
So now all have fixed IP's.