Re: Server Offline- need some advice

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Hi James:

I wonder if the original complaint by the end user may give a clue.

Do you know what it was that caused him to suspect a problem?

Any errors in the event logs from either before the restart/chkdsk or after?

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Larry

"James Orr" <JamesOrr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Yesterday, a client told me he thought there was some type of file
corruption
on his SBS 2003 server, so I did a chkdsk at startup- pretty routine.

However, since that chkdsk, the server has been totally offline. The
clients can see/access/ping each other but can't get to the server and the
server can't ping any clients. There were absolutely no changes to the
network setup; the chkdsk was the only thing I did.

After that, I tried redoing the IP stack, then doing a repair install of
Windows. No luck there. I also tried switching the IP address, checking
different cables, ports, etc. No luck.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.


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