Re: Windows XP clients lose connection to shares on 2008 server

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Thanks - sorry if I'm missing the obvious but could you tell me what you mean by ...
taking the directory of a remote machine


"Alan Morris [MSFT]" <alanmo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OOUaCDFpJHA.3840@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
It sound like the server service or redirector can not get any more resources (due to the nonpaged pool exhausted) but normally there would be warnings in the system eventlog.

You can check if the server service is wedged by TSing into the system and taking the directory of a remote machine


This also may be a deadlock in lsass. I'd try this hotfix first

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948790
Services or processes that require authentication may stop responding because of a deadlock condition in the Lsass.exe process on a Windows Server 2008-based computer or on a Windows Vista Service Pack 1-based computer



I've hit this a clustered print server.


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"boe" <boe_dNO@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:eUC8vTDpJHA.3984@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I'm not going to dismiss it but since we schedule updates for 3 AM and it just stops working mid day - I'm guessing it is something else.

"Bruce Sanderson" <bsanders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OI7V7vCpJHA.1172@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Just a thought - I seem to recall something similar when there was a pending restart for some automatically applied Microsoft updates on a server - the server became unresponsive until it was restarted.

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"boe" <boe_dNO@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23WdiDPApJHA.3984@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The lack of anything in the event viewer is very frustrating for me.

"Dallas Kirby" <DallasKirby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:8A208D60-2EAC-4333-9733-5928BF7F8877@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I'm having a similar issue. We are running Windows Server 2003 x86. It
doesn't happen all the time, but every now and then, all our shares and
printers are not accessable - but we can ping the server. I can't browse the
server (START - RUN - \\file_server\) and I can't remote desktop into it
either. When I RDP I get the login prompt but when I click OK, I get a blank
screen and nothing else. I also have remote console via Dell PowerEdge 1950
DRAC and same thing on that too. The only way to fix this is to power cycle
the server. There is nothing in the Event Viewer that would indicate any
kind of problem. We are running 2003 R2 w/ SP2. I'm going to try to update
the NIC drivers/ firmware, but any other thoughts? It is not going offline
due to power settings and I have another file and print server that I built
at the same time and it is not having any of these issues.
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"boe" wrote:

Hello,

We have a single server environment running Exchange 2008. All the clients
are running XP. They'll login and the login script batch file assigns all
the drive mappings. They'll work for a week or so and then suddenly no
one can access their shared drives. They have a few drives mapped to
different volumes and none of them are accessible. They can still ping the
server by name or by IP and they get a response. However, they can't even
manually map a drive to the shares - even the hidden shares and they can't
get to the sysvol from the clients. It isn't happening at a regular
frequency - but about 1 to 3 weeks or so it will happen. I can remote
desktop to the server - no issue when this is happening. There is nothing
in the event viewer at the time the issue occcurs. If I reboot the server
everything returns to normal.

I thought it was symantec so I completely uninstalled using cleanswipe -
nothing at all remains and it still happens.





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