Hi, I relly hope someone can help me on this cos its is driving me crazy The network in question is a wan over 6 offices linked with cisco 760 series ISDN routers. Central office has a win 2000 pro machine which is used to update all the other office "servers" (which are running various os's, 95, 98 and NT server). All has been working fine until we had a crash on the central office machine and had to re-install 2000. Since then, we have lost connectivity to two offices (which happen to be running 95 ?coincidence? dont know.) This is the wierd bit :) I can ping the 95 "servers", telnet to the remote routers, even remote control the servers over the routers by using pc-anywhere, but I just cannot map a drive to them, getting 53 errors, "path not found" etc, searching for the machines by ip address in network places wont turn them up either. DNS over netbios is enabled in all the machines (I have heard disabling this can cause similar problems) , routers are working fine, LMhosts file is correct and working. So whats going on, please :) If replying, please also respond by mail to heathcote123@yahoo.co.uk many thanks Richard.

You didn't say what technique you were using to map them. In your type of setup, the standard procedure is to create a script on the server to automatically map the drives to the clients. Sorry, but I don't have a script handy. The //server/directory method doesn't work over a wan because the routers see it as a junk broadcast and discard it. The script method works because it's part of the authentication and the virtual curcuit remains as long as the client is logged on.