Server Disappearing

[gibbo_ap]

Shares from our Windows Server 2008 machine disappear daily, these are being used are our shared docs. I can remote desktop to it but not connect to the server via windows explorer.

 

arrived this morning all was fine, now it seems to have gone FUBAR agen. i have tried so far:

• removing from the domain
  
• deleting the shares
  
• rejoining then reconnecting
  
• have swapped the nw port (generally for the sake of it lol)
  
• tried restarting services left and right (only one that sounds right is 'server for NFS'
  

 

just removed the file services roll see how this goes

 

want to do a complete reinstall but cant get in til this sat.

 

only thing to solve it is a restart. but if stations have lost the mappings they need a restart too.

 

please please any ideas, clues, insights.....anything

 

have being trying since last week to resolve this no joy yet

[gibbo_ap]

bump please any thoughts, ideas, jokes lol (need cheering up lol)

[Ric_]

Are the NIC drivers borked?

 

Try re-installing the NICs. I know you tried a different port but I suspect it will be the same make/model and hence using the same driver.

[gibbo_ap]

am gonna reinstall (during school time lol) have the old srver have swapped to that for time being. when i reinstall will use the drivers on disk or site not standard win drivers suppose will be a good idea.

 

another weird thing t'was doing, when setting up shares took ages to search for users/usertypes off the domain. sharing the files wasnt too slow (folders of 20gb gonna take a while to apply permissions) but searching on the old old server and other1s is done in seconds not mins.

[somabc]

WINS issues? DNS?

[bio]

By any change you have a service server.exe running on your box ?

 

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[gibbo_ap]

By any change you have a service server.exe running on your box ?

 

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yeah the 'server' service was running along with 'server nfs'. whats this have to do bio?

 

just finished a rebuild and copied 50gb of data bk time go in a sec and see if it is still standing in the morrow!

[bio]

Well 2 weeks ago i spoke to a fellow engineer that ran into the same problem as yours... shares where disappearing on a w2k8 server box. It seems that a server.exe service was running on the box... as he investigated ...he pinned down the problem due to a faulty client that was creating havoc on the server. That client was infected with a trojan/virus. He also told me that he was running symantec AV that had not recognised that virus.. after cleanig the network (he used NOD32).. his problems went away..

 

I hope this helps somehow

 

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