Server just drops shares?!?!?!

[bobbyforhire]

Has anyone ran across an issue where after a little while your server would just drop it's shares and wouldn't bring them back up until you rebooted?


I have a Server 2003 R2 SP2 with about 10 shares on it. It seems that every day, not at the same time the machine would just drop all of it's shares and will not bring them back up unless I reboot....It's very strange.


I noticed after installing Visual Source Safe on this machine this started...Not sure if the two are related.


Event Viewer shows nothing.


HELP!

 

[bobbyforhire]

Anyone ever seen this?

 

[PScottC]

Have you tried restarting the Server service instead of rebooting the box?

PSC

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[bobbyforhire]

Ill give it a try and let you know.

 

[theniteowl]

By dropping it's shares do you mean it is dropping connection to shares that are mapped to from your server?
If so, yes I have run into this quite a lot.

In my case the issue revolves around the drive mappings being established with alternate credentials. As of SP2 Windows would no longer cache the credentials used to establash drive mappings with alternate credentials.
Eventually the connection would just time out and when the mapped resource is accessed again it would not have appropriate credentials to pass.

To clear up the problem I removed the drive mappings and rebooted, then re-established the mappings and also setup entries under User Accounts\Advanced\Manage Passwords.
This tells the system that anytime it accesses resources under a specific network path to use specific credentials.
It cleared up the problem for us, but again the main issue was that we used alternate credentials to establish the mappings to the shares.



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[bobbyforhire]

So the issue moves on. The server dropped it's shares again.

Things Tried:

1) Restart Server Services - Server service doesn't start back up. Hard Re-Boot server.


2) Rebooting the server.


After looking into it a bit deeper i can see right before i lost connection I was getting Computer Browser errors.

http://www.microsoft.com/products/e...48)&FileName=NetEvent.Dll&EvtType=Error&LCID=

I'm still looking into it but incase someone else runs into this issue....Ill keep this one up-to-date.

 

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