zero2dash
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Figured I'd see if anyone [H]ere has come across this problem.
We have shared public folders on one of our servers running Server [strike=]2003 Standard[/s] 2008 R2 Standard; all clients are Win7 Pro.
For some reason, the network shares will randomly drop out and become disconnected. Red X's, failure when connecting ("Share no longer available" etc etc). Anywhere from a few seconds to a minute or two later, the share is reconnected again.
On my machine, I've tried running a ping -t to the IP of the server and the ping will run 99.9% of the time with no timeouts, but despite that, I'll still lose my shares randomly. This basically eliminates network connectivity as the issue. We've also tried switching cables and network ports to make sure it wasn't a bad port.
Today we copied the public directory to an external drive, ran that drive off another server (running 2008 R2) through the USB, remapped the shares....and no one complained of the share randomly dropping today.
We're not sure what it is on that particular server, but we've pretty much narrowed it down to that server. Not sure if it's a setting in Windows that's messing with it. We've disabled the firewall and the AV on that server. A guy at school I asked tonight mentioned stopping the Network Discovery service and/or flushing the DNS cache on the server....I was going to bring that up tomorrow and see if anyone's tried that yet.
Server is not even 7 months old. Dell Support is going to be getting a call probably tomorrow.
Any other ideas?
We have shared public folders on one of our servers running Server [strike=]2003 Standard[/s] 2008 R2 Standard; all clients are Win7 Pro.
For some reason, the network shares will randomly drop out and become disconnected. Red X's, failure when connecting ("Share no longer available" etc etc). Anywhere from a few seconds to a minute or two later, the share is reconnected again.
On my machine, I've tried running a ping -t to the IP of the server and the ping will run 99.9% of the time with no timeouts, but despite that, I'll still lose my shares randomly. This basically eliminates network connectivity as the issue. We've also tried switching cables and network ports to make sure it wasn't a bad port.
Today we copied the public directory to an external drive, ran that drive off another server (running 2008 R2) through the USB, remapped the shares....and no one complained of the share randomly dropping today.
We're not sure what it is on that particular server, but we've pretty much narrowed it down to that server. Not sure if it's a setting in Windows that's messing with it. We've disabled the firewall and the AV on that server. A guy at school I asked tonight mentioned stopping the Network Discovery service and/or flushing the DNS cache on the server....I was going to bring that up tomorrow and see if anyone's tried that yet.
Server is not even 7 months old. Dell Support is going to be getting a call probably tomorrow.
Any other ideas?
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