Mapped Network Drive in XP Not Showing Up in Vista

All of the other machines in my office (All XP Pro) connect to this SQL
server daily; the ability to browse to the server and create an ODBC
connection to it seems to have been broken by the Vista installation somehow.

"Prashanth Prahalad [MSFT]" wrote:

>
> Looks like your DNS translation is broken somewhere (ie your system is not
> able to map the servername to ip address) ? Can you resolve address from any
> other non-Vista machine ?
>
> "naters22" <naters22@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:6A31FA22-F042-417B-957D-8F73B3F90FED@microsoft.com...

> >I upgraded from XP to RC1, I had a mapped networked folder on a SQL server
> > that wasn't a part of the active directory that I am a part of, which
> > could
> > easily still be seen, searched, and used under XP. Now, I can't connect
> > at
> > all to the server in Vista. It won't show up in the network discovery and
> > I
> > can't browse to it either. I can, however, look it up in Internet
> > Explorer
> > (using the IP address, which brings up the server's homepage), and I can
> > also
> > remote desktop to its IP address. Why can I connect using RD and IE but
> > can't get the ODBC SQL connection to work nor can I browse to the server
> > to
> > connect to any files? Please help... Thanks!

>
>
>

There are a couple of things you could try.

If the error you are seeing is ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED or similar, it could be
UAC/LUA related issue.

Can you create a sample share on the server, set the share permissions so
that everyone can access this. Try mapping the share from any of the vista
clients, for eg, from the command prompt - net use *
\\server\share_you_created /user:<domain>\<username> password. Let me know
if that works. If this works, then it could something to do with
named-pipes, since SQL uses this for communication.

Also, I'm assuming that you are in a domain.

I would be happy to follow-up with you offline incase you still have the
problem. Send a mail over to prashp@microsoft.com


"naters22" <naters22@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BDF0A739-C419-455C-B210-6F62DF37277E@microsoft.com...

> All of the other machines in my office (All XP Pro) connect to this SQL
> server daily; the ability to browse to the server and create an ODBC
> connection to it seems to have been broken by the Vista installation
> somehow.
>
> "Prashanth Prahalad [MSFT]" wrote:
>

>>
>> Looks like your DNS translation is broken somewhere (ie your system is
>> not
>> able to map the servername to ip address) ? Can you resolve address from
>> any
>> other non-Vista machine ?
>>
>> "naters22" <naters22@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:6A31FA22-F042-417B-957D-8F73B3F90FED@microsoft.com...

>> >I upgraded from XP to RC1, I had a mapped networked folder on a SQL
>> >server
>> > that wasn't a part of the active directory that I am a part of, which
>> > could
>> > easily still be seen, searched, and used under XP. Now, I can't
>> > connect
>> > at
>> > all to the server in Vista. It won't show up in the network discovery
>> > and
>> > I
>> > can't browse to it either. I can, however, look it up in Internet
>> > Explorer
>> > (using the IP address, which brings up the server's homepage), and I
>> > can
>> > also
>> > remote desktop to its IP address. Why can I connect using RD and IE
>> > but
>> > can't get the ODBC SQL connection to work nor can I browse to the
>> > server
>> > to
>> > connect to any files? Please help... Thanks!

>>
>>
>>