i am trying to join my vindows vista service pack2 to a Win 2003 server with service pack 2. i get and error message the network path was not found. Please help thanki

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Hi, Thank you for your post! Please disable your firewall\antivirus software to check the result first. Open services and disable the "Routing and Remote Access" service. Please boot into Safe Mode with networking to test. By doing this, we can narrow down to software conflict or device side. Regards,Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Hi, Thank you for your post! Could you please describe the network environment? Are they within the same domain? Disable your firewall\antivirus software on both computers to check the result. Please try ping to each other to check first. Open services and disable the "Routing and Remote Access" service. Please boot into Safe Mode with networking to test. By doing this, we can narrow down to software conflict or device side. Regards, Please remember to click “Mark as Answer” on the post that helps you, and to click “Unmark as Answer” if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread. ”