Access to Windows Shared Drive

I've been able to access a drive that is shared on a windows PC from my PBG4 in previous instances. However, for some strange reason I simply cannot get it to work. The computer appears in the Network > server column. However, whenever I try to connect to it, I get a message that the object cannot be found. Then I try to delete the alias, and it will not let me. I've restarted the Mac and PC with no success. If anyone has any suggestions, I would really appreciate it. Thanks!

Hi Sulo28,
I finally fixed the problem with my computer. I used a “brute force” approach to fix, but it worked. I believe that the culprit of this problem where Mac computer can’t access the Windows shared drive / folder is Norton Anti-Virus program. I tried to connect to Windows machine with almost identical configuration but that did not have Norton Anti-Virus program installed. It worked just fine. So, at that point I eliminated the possibility that there was something wrong with my Mac. I tried to uninstall Norton Anti-Virus, but it wouldn’t allow me. (I kept giving me an error message that Microsoft Installer files are missing.) So, I got tired of it and decided to reformat and reinstall the Windows OS. When, I reinstalled my machine to exactly the same state it was when I had a problem, except I didn’t reinstall Norton Anti-Virus 2006. I was able to connect my Mac to it and vice versa. I would make an educated guess that you also probably have Norton Anti-Virus program installed on your system. You can try to remove it from your system, but I’m pretty sure that you will have to reinstall your full OS in order to fix this problem. Norton Anti-Virus probably modifies some necessary registry settings, and it’s beyond my skill level to figure out precisely which settings it corrupts. As you can image, I would stay away from Norton products from now on.

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