mapped drives LAN vs Wifi - heeelp!

[Duane_Dibbley]

Howdy,

 

Having a problem with are mapped drives which isn't making any sense to me...

 

Basically, a staff laptop isn't displaying the required mapped drives in my computer when connected with a cable, but it shows them over wifi. It shows home drive fine, but the other shared drives just dont show up. This is the same with all user accounts I have tried (which are known working on other machines). Permissions seem to be ok too, as I can connect to the drives through the run command i.e \\server\mapped drive.

 

The only difference between working/not working is the connection method.

 

LAN cable no worky

wifi worky

 

the reason I want to have it connected with a cable is that the staff member in question doesn't ever move her laptop (uses it for smartboard) and seems incapable of leaving the wireless switch on her laptop switched on and insists on calling me to come sort it when she has switched it off...generally 3 times a week. (to be fair she also gets fairly poor reception)

 

Any ideas anybody?? not come across this before...

 

ta

[Dos_Box]

Could be a DNS problem perhaps?

When you plug in via cable do you get a differnt DNS server than via wi-fi?

[Roopert]

Sorry if you already tried but the usual type of 'is the ethernet port/connection working' stuff like - is it communicating to the network? is there some old IP settings still on?

[soveryapt]

As the others have said, sounds like there are some config or hardware errors on the LAN Port. Check the IP Configuration to see if the machine is still obtaining via DHCP or not. The other thing could be if you have the ports locked down to certain MAC addresses, obviously the LAN MAC address will differ from the WiFi MAC address, therefore if you've not added in the LAN's MAC Address to any lock down you have over your network, it ain't going to get a lease anyway.

 

Basically, plug it it and compare the ipconfig output for the LAN vs WiFi and make sure it's the same in terms of the DNS and the IP Range at least.

[Duane_Dibbley]

connectivity seems fine, tried it on several known working sockets. Pings both servers internet etc. Like I say I can even bring up the network locations that the drives map to...they just dont appear in my computer!!!! Driving me mad!

[Duane_Dibbley]

DNS DNS DNS. Cheers dos box. Was pointing to the old (dead) server. Cheers guys (slightly embarrassed as I should have checked that already :S)