Can't access shared drive.....

[toddyboman]

I am in the process of changing our network.....

So far I have put an ASA 5510 in place.  The ASA is set to a ppoe connection and dchp's ip to all pc in the office.  That all works fine.....The problem is connecting and staying connected to the shared drive on PC#1

PC#1 now cannot be accessed by any computer. 

However I can restart PC#1 and every office pc will be able to access it and its file.....but within an hour or so no one will be able to connect to PC#1.

Anyone have any ideas......The only change that has taken place is the AS5510....so is there some setting on that that is causing the hiccup...

Thanks!!!

[Maykol Rojas]

Hello Toddy,

When the connection is not working from your computer please do a arp -a from the command prompt, check the MAC address of the computer that has the shared and find it on the network.

This issues are caused 99% of the times for duplicate IP's on the network, the rest 1% correspond to any other device doing proxy arp.

Hope it helps.

Mike.

[abinjola]

like someone said above for 2-pcs in same subnet FW does not come into play and the only thing causing the trouble could be ASA proxying for other PC, who so ever respond first (pc-2 or ASA) to the query of PC-1 will get its arp updated on PC-1, that is why it may be intermittent

Can you disable sysopt noproxyarp interface inside ?

Also paste the snippet of show run static here

[toddyboman]

Doing an arp -a on my pc(pc-2) that cannot access the shared drive on pc-1 I see....

ip ------192.168.10.18----------physical address -------00-13-72-84-a2-5e-------dynamic

NOW on pc-1 I see the following info...

ip address - 192.168.10.18

physical address - 00-13-72-84-A2-5E

I can ping pc-1 from pc-2.

BUT cannot access the pc1 from pc2.....I see the windows cannot access \\server

IF/When I restart pc-1 everything works.....I can access the shared drive.   And after the restart ip address and physical address on pc-1 are the same....and pc-2 shows teh same after the arp -a command....