Connecting to XP Share via numeric IP

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bcjenkins

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Greetings,

A colleague of mine has written an Access application we use for inventory management. Because the application has numeric IP addresses for the table linking. The problem is that I don't seem to be able to map a network drive from within the XP Pro guest on my machine via numeric IP. I get an immediate error telling me I don't have permissions. If I map it via FQDN, I have no issues, but the the application is broken. There seems to be an issue with mapping via numeric IP. Can anyone else confirm this?

FWIW - I can map the drive va numeric IP from OS X. I am very comfortable with windows networking and I don't have issues with my syntax, etc.

Thanks,

Brandon
 
Sharkus said:
I'm using beta 2 and have sucessfully mapped two shares using the IP address of the server. I went into "find" and selected "computers" and then added the address of the server I wanted to connect to, when it was displayed I double clicked on it, entered the password and could see all the shares on it and map them.
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Thanks for the response. That is odd, I am not able to complete the mapping in the VM but can do so from my Mac using smb://ipaddress. I just went through your steps, the machine is found but I get an error message:

\\ipaddress is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this netowrk resource.

The server has no restrictions on it for IPs, etc. The server IP address has been entered in to my "Trusted" site list within the Security tab for local intranet in IE. I have even disabled XP and Mac firewalls, dropped back to RealTek lan driver. Nothing seems to have an effect.

Thanks again.
 
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