I have a Vista/XP dual-boot machine set up both in Vista and in XP to
map a series of network drives. No problem occurs in XP. No problem
occurs mapping to drives by VPN in Vista.

Maps to non-VPN drives in Vista fail, however, with a system error
53. I can ping the machine with the drives I cannot connect to
although net view does not recognize the machine in Vista. System
firewall is off in both Vista and XP. I rely on my router for
firewall protection so firewall blocking is ruled out as a possibility
here. I use identical drive-mount patch files in the two systems.
The mount format is the one I have always used with net use, namely:

net use p: \\xx.xxx.xxx.xx\xxx$ pw /USER:servername\username /
persistent:no

Again, this net-use command works fine in XP but not in Vista on the
same machine (through the same router).

Does anyone have any idea what might be going on here?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Do a simple test, can you do "net use \\xx.xxx.xxx.xx" without p: and /xxx$?

Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
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I have a Vista/XP dual-boot machine set up both in Vista and in XP to
map a series of network drives. No problem occurs in XP. No problem
occurs mapping to drives by VPN in Vista.

Maps to non-VPN drives in Vista fail, however, with a system error
53. I can ping the machine with the drives I cannot connect to
although net view does not recognize the machine in Vista. System
firewall is off in both Vista and XP. I rely on my router for
firewall protection so firewall blocking is ruled out as a possibility
here. I use identical drive-mount patch files in the two systems.
The mount format is the one I have always used with net use, namely:

net use p: \\xx.xxx.xxx.xx\xxx$ pw /USER:servername\username /
persistent:no

Again, this net-use command works fine in XP but not in Vista on the
same machine (through the same router).

Does anyone have any idea what might be going on here?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Yes--that works--but, of course, it doesn't give me a mapped drive!

On Jul 26, 11:26 am, "Robert L [MVP - Networking]"
wrote:
Do a simple test, can you do "net use \\xx.xxx.xxx.xx" without p: and /xxx$?

Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting onhttp://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access onhttp://www.HowToNetworking.com wrote in ooglegroups.com...

I have a Vista/XP dual-boot machine set up both in Vista and in XP to
map a series of network drives. No problem occurs in XP. No problem
occurs mapping to drives by VPN in Vista.

Maps to non-VPN drives in Vista fail, however, with a system error
53. I can ping the machine with the drives I cannot connect to
although net view does not recognize the machine in Vista. System
firewall is off in both Vista and XP. I rely on my router for
firewall protection so firewall blocking is ruled out as a possibility
here. I use identical drive-mount patch files in the two systems.
The mount format is the one I have always used with net use, namely:

net use p: \\xx.xxx.xxx.xx\xxx$ pw /USER:servername\username /
persistent:no

Again, this net-use command works fine in XP but not in Vista on the
same machine (through the same router).

Does anyone have any idea what might be going on here?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Then I would check the permission in the security tab. or this link may help,

Vista Permission IssuesPost Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 5:14 am Post subject: How to: check permissions using Vista icacls command, Reply with quote . ...
http://www.chicagotech.net/vista/vistapermission.htm


Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
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Yes--that works--but, of course, it doesn't give me a mapped drive!

On Jul 26, 11:26 am, "Robert L [MVP - Networking]"
wrote:
Do a simple test, can you do "net use \\xx.xxx.xxx.xx" without p: and /xxx$?

Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting onhttp://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access onhttp://www.HowToNetworking.com wrote in ooglegroups.com...

I have a Vista/XP dual-boot machine set up both in Vista and in XP to
map a series of network drives. No problem occurs in XP. No problem
occurs mapping to drives by VPN in Vista.

Maps to non-VPN drives in Vista fail, however, with a system error
53. I can ping the machine with the drives I cannot connect to
although net view does not recognize the machine in Vista. System
firewall is off in both Vista and XP. I rely on my router for
firewall protection so firewall blocking is ruled out as a possibility
here. I use identical drive-mount patch files in the two systems.
The mount format is the one I have always used with net use, namely:

net use p: \\xx.xxx.xxx.xx\xxx$ pw /USER:servername\username /
persistent:no

Again, this net-use command works fine in XP but not in Vista on the
same machine (through the same router).

Does anyone have any idea what might be going on here?

Thanks in advance for any help!

I can't check permissions on the security tabs for the target drives
because I don't have admin. privileges on those machines. In any case
the same net use commands work fine on XP on the same machine!

icacls \\xx.xxx.xxx.xx\xxx$ returns only:

The network path was not found.
Successfully processed 0 files; Failed processing 1 files

on the Vista client.

So, unfortunately, I'm not much further ahead at the moment (I tried
many of the suggestions on the links you provided but nothing helped).

On Jul 26, 6:01 pm, "Robert L [MVP - Networking]"
wrote:
Then I would check the permission in the security tab. or this link may help,

Vista Permission IssuesPost Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 5:14 am Post subject: How to: check permissions using Vista icacls command, Reply with quote . ...
http://www.chicagotech.net/vista/vistapermission.htm

Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting onhttp://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access onhttp://www.HowToNetworking.com wrote in glegroups.com...

Yes--that works--but, of course, it doesn't give me a mapped drive!

On Jul 26, 11:26 am, "Robert L [MVP - Networking]" wrote:

Do a simple test, can you do "net use \\xx.xxx.xxx.xx" without p: and /xxx$?

Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting onhttp://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access onhttp://www.HowToNetworking.com wrote in ooglegroups.com...

I have a Vista/XP dual-boot machine set up both in Vista and in XP to
map a series of network drives. No problem occurs in XP. No problem
occurs mapping to drives by VPN in Vista.

Maps to non-VPN drives in Vista fail, however, with a system error
53. I can ping the machine with the drives I cannot connect to
although net view does not recognize the machine in Vista. System
firewall is off in both Vista and XP. I rely on my router for
firewall protection so firewall blocking is ruled out as a possibility
here. I use identical drive-mount patch files in the two systems.
The mount format is the one I have always used with net use, namely:

net use p: \\xx.xxx.xxx.xx\xxx$ pw /USER:servername\username /
persistent:no

Again, this net-use command works fine in XP but not in Vista on the
same machine (through the same router).

Does anyone have any idea what might be going on here?

Thanks in advance for any help!