Re: Domain Controller Not Sharing, Workgroup Inaccessible - Please Help :)

Well, one idea... check the "share" permissions (not the NTFS file
permissions). Perhaps they've been changed. Typically they should be
Everyone=Full/Read/Change, with restrictions put in the NTFS file
permissions.

-Frank

"Chris Henson" <phluidREMOVEME@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:ocCfg.18808$JW5.1025@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi, I've got an interesting problem with a Windows 2000 Server
operating as the PDC in a small environment of Windows XP SP2
workstations. The server had been behaving normally up until a couple
weeks ago, when I noticed some file system problems. I corrected these
with the use of chkdsk, and everything seemed fine initially, aside from
some unrelated problems with the tape drive.

However, as a few days went by, I realised there were more issues than
I'd originally thought. The server has stopped sharing properly. When
trying to browse the domain from Explorer, I recieve a workgroup
inaccessible error. Trying to browse to the server by it's UNC name
"works," but no shares are actually visible, it's just blank. Trying to
connect to a printer immediately errors saying that the share was not
found. All shares are visible using a 'net share' command, and I've tried
removing and re-adding the shares, resetting the permissions, etc.

Now, here's the interesting thing - All the client stations have a
pre-existing mapped drive to a share on the server (\\server\data) - And
that works fine! I.e, under Explorer from a client, you can go to the
mapped drive and work with files as normal, but when if you open explorer
and type \\server\data into the address bar, it simply errors with a share
not found.

I'm at a loss on this one - I've verified that all the administrative
shares are intact, that the shares exist as far as the server is
concerned, etc, no network connectivity problems, etc.


Any ideas on this? Thanks in advance!


Chris



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