I'm actually having a somewhat similar problem.

I have 2 physical Win2k3 servers set up, and each has VMware Server.  One server 
hosts 2 virtual Win2k3 servers, and the other serves 3 in addition to 2 NT4 virtual 
machines.  Recently, we changed our lmhosts file to define a route between the physical 
servers to take advantage of a gigabit connection we've placed all our servers on. 
 This network is 192.168.101.xxx, and our primary network is 192.168.100.xxx.  The 
physical servers have a NIC on both networks, and the virtual machines are bridged 
to the 192.168.100.xxx, and all virtual machines have a 192.168.100.xxx address.

Just a quick glance at our topology:

Server A                  Server B
  - Virt Server 1           - Virt Server 1
  - Virt Server 2           - Virt Server 2
                            - Virt Server 3
                            - Virt Server 4
                            - Virt Server 5

Since making this addition, we can no longer access Server B from any virtual servers 
it hosts.  The virtual servers on Server A can access both physical servers, and 
the virtual servers on Server B can access Server A, and all client computers in 
our network can access both physical servers as well as all virtual servers on both 
physical servers.

I've verified that the VMware Server is set to not automaticall bridge to the gigabit 
connection we use as our backbone (it was strangely omitted, but we re-denied it 
and restarted the virtual servers that we could).  Also, I've removed the lmhosts 
file and performed nbtstat -R on all server computers.

I'm still unable to figure out how this problem came about, and even more in the 
dark as to how to fix it.

Thank you,

Jared







On Tuesday, September 25, 2007 at 6:43 am, atro wrote:

>I am using XP SP2 and need to access a windows share on server A (Windows 2003 Server). 

>This server is on another domain as my laptop and has IP address 192.168.1.1. When 

>I try to go to a server shared folder on my laptop I can't find it by selecting 
\\192.168.1.1 

>and get error the "network path was not found" when typing in the run command. I 

>don't even get an authentication username and password popup.

>

>

>However I can access windows shares on server B \\192.168.1.2 (i get the username 

>and password popup) which is also WIndows 2003 server and on the same domain as 
server 

>A.

>The strange thing is that I can access the shared folders on 192.168.1.1 when I 
am 

>remotely in 192.168.1.2 but not directly from my PC.

>I can't understand why I can access the one server but not the other as their setups 

>look exactly the same.

>

>My IP is auto assigned and is in the 172 range.

>My laptop is on another domain than the servers and I am not connected to my domain 

>as I am offsite.

>I can remote desktop into both servers IPs.

>I can ping both servers IPs

>I can only access the one server shares and not both???

>

>How can I access the folder share on the 192.168.1.1 directly as I need to copy 
a 

>file to my machine that is very large and can't copy from server A to server B to 

>my machine due to size limitations on server B. so my problem is I can't see the 

>share on server A to copy to my laptop and I am stuck.

>

>Any help? 

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