I'm connecting a win2k pc to a linux redhat server. This is a small tcp/ip LAN. There are no DNS/firewalls/routers/internet connections.... Most machines are Win2k. A couple machines are win 98. I can see all the machines after waiting for about three min. I can map to various win2k / win 98 (machines)shared files. On one win 2k box and one win 98 box I cannot map the shared folder. I receive the "network path not found" error. I can ping all machines. I can see all machines. I can not connect to all the machines. Why? How do I force the connection? Is there a way to tell my the machine to map to ip adress xxx.xxx.xxx.xx using the command prompt or anything? I do not have this problem with any other machines. It's not the server, or the win2k or the win 98 boxes. It's not the hardware. The NIC connects to other machines (ie the server). It seems to have a diposition towards two machines that it must accept. Please help me beat this machine into submission. Thanks in advance.

"On one win 2k box and one win 98 box I cannot map the shared folder" Where/what box has the shared folder? ipconfig at a cmd or command prompt will tell you your up config. Sounds like networking is working fine. I would look to user account access and logon access

If u can ping the machine and the machine has got shared folders then the shared folders should be accessable from every machine. You can try following commands at the command prompt. net view \\xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx this should show you the shared folders of machine having xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ip address. net use z: \\xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx\shared-folder-name this will map the shared folder on your pc. I hope this will help Good Luck Learner