Can't access my network shares

[robbyp]

I imaged my old hard drive onto a new computer. That hard drive had a static ip address assigned to the network card. When I started using my new computer I had no problem accessing network shares or using the Internet. However, the problem was that nobody could access the network shares on my computer. If I change my IP address to one provided by DHCP they can get to my shares, but if I switch it back to my old one that I used from the last computer they can't. What gives?

 

[lansalot]

You changed the computer name. And if you are in a domain and have a different computer name, but same IP (and DNS is still resolving the old name to the same IP), that will be why.

 

[JackMDS]

Log to this page it has a lot of links to instructions to Windows Network Settings, and Sharing.

Link to: Windows Network - Installing & Sharing.

:sun:

 

[robbyp]

Guys, keep in mind that I imaged the old hard drive that had no problems from another computer. Why would a static IP give me trouble, but when I use DHCP it does not? The network shares can be accessed fine with DHCP, just not Static. Thanks.

 

[nweaver]

networking issue.

Could be any number of things..IP conflict, name resolution (general connectivity)
dns registration with DHCP (if you have a dns server)
subnetting issues.


why would you go with static over DHCP? If it's a big issue, add a reservation, see if that fixes it.

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: robbyp
I imaged my old hard drive onto a new computer. That hard drive had a static ip address assigned to the network card. When I started using my new computer I had no problem accessing network shares or using the Internet. However, the problem was that nobody could access the network shares on my computer. If I change my IP address to one provided by DHCP they can get to my shares, but if I switch it back to my old one that I used from the last computer they can't. What gives?

You're adding a Static IP, but when you do so, are you also adding your DNS entries, the default dns suffix, WINS (if you use it), and the default gateway?

 

[lansalot]

Did my post apply? If you did what I said in that post, then that is why it isn't working. This is to do with machine account names and IP addresses registered to same.

So did you?