Problem Accesing Network Shares

[cyberblade3001]

I can ping the network shares, but when I try to access them from an explorer window (\\$fileserver) it says windows cannot find \\$fileserver.

It's doing this with all network shares. I can ping all of the servers, and I can access them from another machine. I've (temporarily) disabled my firewall so it's not that. I reinstalled the Client for Microsoft Networks, File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks, and I tried disabling NetBIOS but still no go. I cannot access them with net use either.

Any suggestions?

Forgot to mention, I'm running XP SP2-fully updated, the shares I'm trying to access are on Win2K3 Servers. Everything worked until two days ago-and I can't remember installing or uninstalling anything.

[freakinprince]

is the $ suppose to be there?

[cyberblade3001]

is the $ suppose to be there?

$ is just noting that it is a variable that is defined elsewhere.

[freakinprince]

i think you should be putting \\(fileservername)\(filesharename)

isn't that what's you are suppose to do in order to get into that file share?

[cyberblade3001]

i think you should be putting \\(fileservername)\(filesharename)

isn't that what's you are suppose to do in order to get into that file share?

Thats what I'm doing... The \\$fileserver as I said before is just so everyone knows thats a user defined variable.

I am actually typing \\(fileservername)\(filesharename)

\\$fileserver=\\(fileservername)\(filesharename)

[DonBB]

Can you map a drive to any of the shares?

[cyberblade3001]

I couldn't map any drives either. I did finally fix this-I downloaded and reinstalled SP2. Now everything works again-but I don't know what was wrong.