Mapped drive issue

Danny UK

Danny UK

Danny UK

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I've got a HP Microserver in my loft which was set up as a mapped drive from my laptop. A while back the Microserver lost connection to the DHCP server (router) and started using the default IP address that Windows gives it.

Once I'd realised what had happened and I restored the connection it picked up a new DHCP IP address. The problem I have is that the mapped drive no longer works.

I've tried to remap the drive using \\HP_Microserver and using the IP address, but neither works. Angry IP scanner doesn't see the IP address as active, although some other scanner software did and I can't ping the IP address. However, the Microserver has VNC installed and I can put the IP address into the VNC viewer and get straight onto the server and I can see the rest of the network from the Microserver.

Does anyone know how to resolve this please?
 
What error do you get when you try and connect/map the drive?

You may need to do a: net use * /del first to clear the IPC$ connections, then re-establish the mapped drive fresh.
 
If it cannot pick up a dhcp address either it has no lan connection or the router does not like it..

Give it a static ip address out of the dhcp scope (i like .200 for the server) then see if you can ping that from your laptop
 
When I try to map the drive it comes up with error code 0x80070035. "The network path was not found."

It has a DHCP IP address now, it was only when the network was disconnected that it lost it.
 
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