Win2k WKS has problems with network pathnames

[Sen7inel]

Hi,

one of our Win2k SP2 workstations occasionally can't seem to find network paths. For example, we have redirected My Documents, and every now and then when the user (can be any user in the network) tries to access her My Documents -folder it says that the network path &quot;\\server\mydocs\username&quot; cannot be found. Then, after pressing ok and trying again it just MAY suddenly work. Or then again, may not. Network connection to the server is up all the time, as I can keep a steady <10ms ping in the background while this happens. Also, during these blackouts (which only last for a few secs) IE may claim that any WEBserver can't be found, and then after a few refreshes it suddenly finds it.

Where should I start looking? This sounds like some sort of DNS problem, but the configuration is exactly the same as in every other workstation, and only one machine has this problem. A reinstall might do the trick, but is there anything more sophisticated?

 

[WiredToad]

It almost sounds like a NIC Issure. I would reinstall the NIC driver, delete the Lan connection in dial up and networking and make another. If no other hosts on the same segment are having problems, that is at least where I would start.

Are there any errors in the event log? Does nslookup ever fail? Gotta luv issues like this. X-)

 

[Sen7inel]

nslookup hasn't failed so far, but I haven't done very &quot;exhaustive&quot; testing, spamming a DNS request or something similar. The bug/faulty NIC or whatever hasn't caused any severe problems so far, because the users' files are &quot;locally cached offline&quot; files as long as the computer can't sync to server-based My Documents. Eventually it does that and then the files are again safely at the server (being backed up etc). Well, I'll try another NIC as soon as I find the time. =)

 

[Sen7inel]

Oh, another thing. The security event log gets spammed with eventid 577 (failure audit of a privileged service? server: Security, service: -).. Any relation?

 

[welshguy]

My first thought here - after DNS which sounds ok - was it sounded simliar to a network error caused by a duplicate
IP or netbios name somewhere on the network.

Do you use DHCP or assign static addresses? Probably not solution but thought I'd mention it. Of course faulty nic
as suggested previously could cause same symptoms.

The 577 error is that something or someone has tried to execute a command or process using system priviledges and failed. Perhaps some service has insufficient rights ?
Only other sinister thing I can think of is it could be signs of intrusion/hackers on pc. But then again I'm just paranoid about this

Cheers