Rolf Barbakken

No ideas, I'm afraid, but you are not alone. Many others experience the
same. Search this NG for my enquiry into the same problem.

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Rolf



"msnews.microsoft.com" <robert.fischer@informatik.fh-nuernberg.de> wrote in
message news:uNovg0dLHHA.3952@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Dear experts
>
>
> I have a problem accessing any network shares from "outside the LAN"
> "Windos Server 2003"-systems with a "Windows Vista"-system:
>
> Detailed description:
> I have a LAN behind a ADSL-Router and in this LAN there are
> Vista-Vista-WS1: A Windows Vista Business Edition x64 (English)(current
> patch level)
> Vista-WS2: A Windows Vista Business Edition x86 (German)(current
> patch level)
> Vista-WS3: A Windows Vista Business Edition x86
> (English)(current patch level) in a Virtual Machine
> XP-WS: A Windows XP Professional Edition x86
> (English)(current patch level)
> Srv-LAN: A Windows Server 2003 R2 x86 (English)(current
> patch level) in a Virtual Machine
> The Windows Server is configured as domain
> controller, VPN-Server, DNS-Server, File-Server
>
> I have a workplace environment in another site which can be accessed over
> VPN:
> DC-WAN: A Windows Server 2003 R2 x86 (English)(current patch
> level) as Domain Controller
> Exchange-WAN: A Windows Server 2003 R2 x86 (English)(current patch level)
> as Exchange Server
> FS-WAN: A Windows Server 2003 R2 x86 (English)(current patch
> level) as File Server
> VPN-WAN: A Windows Server 2003 R2 x86 (English)(current patch
> level) as VPN-Server
> Web-WAN: A Windows Server 2003 R2 x86 (English)(current patch
> level) as Web-Server
>
> Vista-WS1, Vista-WS2, Vista-WS3, XP-WS
> can successfully connect over VPN with Srv-LAN and can
> successfully map any share from Srv-LAN
> Vista-WS1, Vista-WS2, Vista-WS3, XP-WS can successfully connect over VPN
> with VPN-WAN
> Vista-WS1, Vista-WS2, Vista-WS3, XP-WS can successfully connect with the
> Exchange Server Exchange-WAN
> Vista-WS1, Vista-WS2, Vista-WS3, XP-WS can successfully connect with the
> Web Server Web-WAN
> Vista-WS1, Vista-WS2, Vista-WS3 always fail to map any share from FS-WAN
> XP-WS can successfully map any share from FS-WAN
>
>
> Error messages:
> c:\> net use x: \\<fqdn>\share
> "System error 1214 has occured. The format of the specified network name
> is invalid."
> c:\> net use x: \\<NetBIOS-Name>\share
> "System error 53 has occured. The network path was not found."
> c:\> net use x: \\<IP-address>\share
> "System error 53 has occured. The network path was not found."
>
>
> Any ideas?
> Thanks for your support in advance!
>
> Dear regards and a happy new year... :-)
>
>
>
>
> Robert Fischer
>
>