Re: Windows Mapped Drives - Strange

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--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Mark McCall" <lists@a...> wrote:
> Just added a drive to my jukebox PC and upgraded it to XP (from
2K).
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> The windows shares work fine and I can stream to Xbox as before,
but from
> other PCs there's a strange problem.  If you do the usual START -
RUN -
> //jukebox from another PC on the LAN you get an error message that
you may
> not have rights to view that machine.  The rights are setup OK
though and
> the strange thing is if you do a //ip.address it all works fine.
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> I've got round the problem by editing the drive mappings to use IP
address
> instead of machine name but would like to know why this is.  Any
ideas?
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> Thanks
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> M.

I think that the name resolution uses WINS and that WINS is a bit
tighter on XP.  It'd going to be to do with which machine thinks it
is the WINS server and is prepared to do a name to IP address
translation.  If no machine offers to do that, then you will get
what you are seeing.