Re: Mapping an iSeries drive from XP

["Mark Allen" <scprideandms@xxxxxxxxx>]

Check XP firewall settings.............burned me first few times (but then
we ordered 10 IDENTICAL PC's from the SAME vendor, 8 came in attached no
probs, the other 2 we "eventually" found out had Firewall turned on and just
about everything locked down.  This was straight from the vendors box....

On 7/18/06, daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It tells me that the network path could not be found.
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> Dave Parnin
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> Nishikawa Standard Company
> Topeka, IN  46571
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> Have you tried iseriessystemname\iseriesuserid?
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> John A. Jones, CISSP
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> I think this is probably more PC related than midrange so I'm posting
> here instead of midrange.com.  I'm in the process of setting up a new
> laptop running Windows XP.  I've got almost everything ready but I'm
> having trouble mapping drives to our 570 and 270 boxes.  I've never had
> any problems doing this under Windows 2000 but this is my first XP work
> PC with client/access.
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> I open Windows Explorer, click on Tools, then Map Network Drive.  I then
> select the drive letter and for the folder I put \\system-name\Root and
> click "finish".  It takes a few seconds telling me that it's attempting
> to connect.  I'm then given a "connect to system-name" dialog box.  It
> asks for my user name and password.  I enter my AS/400 user-id and
> password.
> Both boxes are blank before I enter anything but when I press the enter
> key it immediately comes back with the same dialog box but this time my
> user-id is prefixed with our domain name and a backslash.  Any ideas?
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> Dave Parnin
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> Nishikawa Standard Company
> Topeka, IN  46571
> daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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