Device name already in use Solved

Question

Hello everyone,

I have a small problem with my company's network.

One of the PCs cannot connect to the server, I tried to ping the server (server2003) but no response.

When I try to access the network drive (shown in the workstation), the following message appears:

"Microsoft Windows Network: Local device name already in use.
This connection has not been restored."

Do you have any ideas... or even several ^^'

P.S: everything was working very well before a power outage.

Configuration: Windows XP Pro Server 2003

Pwouaro · Accepted Answer

I found a solution.  I removed the network drive to reinstall it. Everything is working again.  There you go.

kusanagi79 · Answer

I have the same problem except that I have the problem on all clients on the network. Can you imagine going to each workstation to delete the drives and recreate them? Moreover, I can no longer create my drives with the server name (e.g., \\svr2\commun); I have to create them with the IP (e.g., \\192.168.0.1\commun).
Same when I enter the path in "run", I get a message saying that I cannot access this resource. Why does it work with the IP but not with the name? Please respond quickly, it's urgent, thank you.

arwsh · Answer

Hello,

In my case, this error occurred when accessing certain files or directories, always the same ones.

The problem was with my Linux server, which had a full root partition; Samba probably couldn't write its logs when accessing those files.

Device name already in use

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