RE: Clients are losing connection to the server.





""Nathan Liu [MSFT]"" wrote:

> Hello SJ,
>
> Thank you for posting in the SBS newsgroup.
>
> According to your description, I understand that clients are losing
> connection to the SBS 2003 SP1 Server. If I have misunderstood the problem,
> please don't hesitate to let me know.
>
> To narrow down this issue, please kindly answer and perform the following
> questions and steps:
>
> 1. Does this issue occurs with all clients or certain clients?

All the clients get "kicked" at the same time. (or EXTREMELY close, I can't
tell)
>
> 2. Please refer to the following KB article to troubleshoot network
> connectivity problems:
>
> How to troubleshoot network connectivity problems
> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=325487
>
> 3. Please also refer to the following information to re-run the CEICW to
> configure proper Internet connection:
>
I can run this no problem and I checked all the setting against the KB
article for the correct connection settings, however, if you still feel I
should run the CEICW again I certainly will.

> 825763 How to configure Internet access in Windows Small Business Server
> 2003
> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=825763
>
> 4. Meanwhile, you may try the following steps on the client workstation
> and see how it goes:

Since this is for all the workstation, do you really think I should do this
on all of them? I would consider this a last result as I have a TON of
specialized software that is profile specific.

Again if you feel this is what I should do...

>
> a. Log on locally as a local administrator to the client. In Control Panel,
> double-click System. On the Computer Name tab, click Change, select
> Workgroup, type a workgroup name and click OK. Click OK when prompted to
> restart the computer.
>
> b. On the SBS server, delete the user and computer accounts, click Add a
> User in Server Management\Users. Follow the instructions to create user and
> computer accounts.
>
> c. On the client, open IE, go to http://SBSServerName/connectcomputer and
> follow the instructions to join domain.
>
> I appreciate your time and cooperation. If anything is unclear, please feel
> free to let me know. I am looking forward to hearing from you.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Nathan Liu (MSFT)
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> >I have a problem that has been plaguing me for several weeks and I’m out
> of
> >ideas. I have an SBS Server2003 SP1 server that was installed about a
> month
> >ago. It was a version of SBS that didn’t come with SP1 installed on it
> (one
> >of the last ones I think) so I installed SP1 exactly as I have 30+ times
> >before on servers that are in use.
> >
> >Everything seemed to be fine.
> >
> >Shortly after we got the workstations connected. (I should mention that 5
> >of them are new, and three are about a year old) We started having issues
> >where the clients would lose, or drop their connection to the server. No
> >files, SQL access Internet, nothing. Rebooting the workstations does not
> >correct this issue. The only thing we can do is reset the server (we seem
> to
> >lose Internet access at the same time as when they call I can’t remote
> in
> >either) by powering off because there is no monitor on the server itself
> (we
> >use RDC while in/out of the office if we need to).
> >
> >I was thinking maybe bad NIC’s but, for the life of me I can’t figure
> out
> >how we could lose BOTH of them at the same time. I though maybe the
> Linksys
> >10/100/1000 switch we have out there, but that doesn’t explain the
> connection
> >to the Internet going down (the NIC connects to the DSL MODEM).
> >
> >Any thoughts would be great…
> >
> >I’m stumped.
> >
> >SJ
> >
> >
>
>
.



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