# Data source error message

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**Category:** V4 Question\
**Created:** [May 20, 2015, 1:20am UTC](https://forum.sambapos.com/t/data-source-error-message/5515 "2015-05-20T01:20:43Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 20, 2015, 2:01pm UTC](https://forum.sambapos.com/t/data-source-error-message/5515/10 "2015-05-20T14:01:10Z")

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Do you have any shared folders on the till that are on the server? Can you access those?  
Did you say Samba works fine on the server (localhost)?  
Ping is a network tool, you can do in cmd promp; ping 192.168.1.100 where the ip is your server, or server hostname.  
You would get something like this;  
 ![](https://forum.sambapos.com/uploads/default/original/3X/1/c/1caa48f11ffbcf2d0c1e63b468fcbfd0e42895a7.png)

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