Network access lost after hardware failure

[jvansciver]

We're running PT Complete 2009, Multiuser, Windows XP Professional, on a 3-computer peer-to-peer network. Our 'Main" office computer is the server for Peachtree data. This computer suffered a hardware failure and the mother board had to be replaced. Peachtree is up and working again on this computer, but now both other network computers are unable to get into it. The error message states that Peachtree cannot open the shared folder containing that company. We have two separate companies and get the same message for both. All of this was working flawlessly before the hardware failure, so I don't think it can be the mapping from the remote computers. Anybody have any idea how to fix this?

[TheWolf]

Start by unsharing the folder on the computer that host the data, and unmap the drives. Restart the computer that hosts the data and then reshare the folder with full access. Then remap the drives using the same drive letter as you did before.

[jvansciver]

Tom: Thanks for the suggestions. I tried it exactly as you said, but it still won't work. After I tried it, it looks like the remote computer disconnected the mapped drive when it tried and got the error. This happened twice. It then showed up as a 'disconnected network drive'. I can freely explore the mapped drive from Windows on that computer, but Peachtree is choking on it. In desperation, I tried removing, then reinstalling Peachtree on the remote computer. During the installation, it stalls at the point of assigning the data location. Even though it is all mapped correctly, Peachtree install tells me there is no valid Peachtree 2009 centralized data at that location. So now I can't even install Peachtree back on that computer. I'm totally stumped. Any more insight?

[jvansciver]

Update: It seems like Pervasive was damaged on the host machine from the hardware failure we had, but installing Peachtree as a 'repair' didn't fix it. I had to completely remove Peachtree from the host machine and reinstall as a new install. That seems to have fixed the network issue, but it's still not working quite right. It seems like the new install put some files in /Sage/Peachtree and others in just /Peachtree. Can't figure out why.