Mapped Drive Problem

rojones

rojones

rojones

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Running Windows 7 Starter on my netbook. Basically i mapped a drive to a NAS drive while i was connected via Wireless. Then when i disable the wireless and plug in the rj45 i can do all the usual stuff like connect to the web and browse my router, but i cant connect to the NAS shared drive or even ping it.

Any ideas ?
 
This is strange.

When you're trying to ping it, when wired (instead of wireless) are you pinging it using its hostname (e.g. nas) or via the NAS's IP address?

Also, what model wireless router do you have?
 
Sounds weird. Just to eliminate the obvious, have you done an ipconfig when connected wirelessly and then ipconfig when connected via wire and compare this with what ip your NAS has ? Might be good idea to post your ip, subnet mask and default gateway for each here as well as your NAS ip if you are not sure
 
had much the same problem connecting into server 2008 shares from Vista and 7 (64) to resolve I used the following registry fix.

1 . Open registry editor ( Start search - regedit)
2 . Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
3. Create a new DWORD value with the following properties:
NAME: LmCompatibilityLevel
VALUE: 1
 
Just tried the above mentioned reg fix, but no joy. Soon as i disable the wireless and plug the ethernet in it just cant find the NAS, cant ping it cant connect to the mapped drive or anything. Very odd.
 
rojones said:
Will give this a go tonight. Thanks.
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Do you have the wireless IP on you laptop set to the same as the lan or are you DHCP? Check you don't have the same IP for both, that will cause you issues if you swap between cable and wireless on the same network.
 
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