- Server can't be seen
- Posted by john on March 16th, 2008
I have a small network running 2k3. The problem I have is that , all
the clients can see each other and even server can see the clients.
However, server can't be seen by none of the clients. In exploring the
domain, only the clients are shown. Even exploring the domain on the
server, only the clients are shown. I can ping the server from any
clients both with name and IP.
Please help.
- Posted by Augusto Alvarez on March 16th, 2008
What do you mean exactly when the clients cant see the server? You are
trying to access using RDP? Share folders?
In any case, if the clients can ping the servers there's nothing wrong with
the network connectivity, the ICMP requests are getting to destination and
so are the responses. There are any firewalls in the middle?
Cheers
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- Posted by john on March 16th, 2008
On Mar 16, 10:27 am, "Augusto Alvarez" <augusto.alvare...@gmail.com>
wrote:
When I go to Windows Explorer, the server is not shown.
- Posted by Kjell THorgersen on March 16th, 2008
Hi, I had a similar problem after installing KB948496. After a lot of
troubleshooting I removed the Hot fix and everything was normal again. I am
running Windows 2003 on HP Proliant DL380 G5 servers.
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Best regards
Kjell Thorgersen
"john" wrote:
- Posted by lforbes on March 16th, 2008
I am assuming you are talking about My Network Places?
Can you map to the server from the clients \\server\share?
If so I wouldn't worry about it. The accounts listed in My Network Places
are often missing. It is probably because the server browser services isn't
the master browser.
You can install WINS. I find I need it even with an entire Windows 2003/XP
domain simply because we still use Netbios for pretty much everything from
logging in to mapping drives.
I have also disabled the computer browser service in Group Policy for every
computer except my server and backup server. That ensures that the browser
list stays current and my server stays the master browser.
Cheers,
Lara
"john" wrote:
- Posted by john on March 17th, 2008
On Mar 16, 1:28 pm, lforbes <lfor...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
It worked. I installed WINS and it worked immediately.Thanks a lot.
- Posted by lforbes on March 17th, 2008
Glad to help. It is amazing how WINS is required because we still rely
heavily on NetBios for our mapping and browsing.
Cheers,
Lara
"john" wrote:
- Posted by Thomas T on March 18th, 2008
I wrote that post "KB948496, 2003 x64 server stops net functions" and I must
say that my server with lost net functions has WINS installed. So there ist
no need to think that KB948496 works on x64 machines. But I am astonished
about this problem having no bigger pubic interest.
T.
"lforbes" wrote:
- Posted by lforbes on March 20th, 2008
Hi,
Losing net functions is different than browsing issues. A server is still
fully functional without browsing being enabled. However, you just can't
browse the network.
Do you still have an issue? What OS are you running?
Cheers,
Lara
"Thomas T" wrote:
- Posted by Thomas T on March 20th, 2008
Yes, the issue is still unsolved but in the meantime I found that it goes
down to a specific nic (NC373i) and its faulty driver in some newer HP
servers. There exists an older thread in HP business support forums where my
situation is described
http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/...readId=1153566
Regards
Thomas
"lforbes" wrote:
- Posted by lforbes on March 20th, 2008
Hi,
You do know that this is a Service Pack 2 Issue don't you? We had this same
problem and we have Dell Servers.
Disabling RSS didn't work but the patch did.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/93659
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
Cheers,
Lara
"Thomas T" wrote:
- Posted by Thomas T on March 20th, 2008
Hi Lara,
this is the first time that I hear about such a patch. I really thought that
this driver is guilty. Are you sure about this patch is solving the problem?
Regards
Thomas
"lforbes" wrote:
- Posted by lforbes on March 21st, 2008
Hi,
Service Pack 2 KILLED my network connectivity in both my ISA server and my 2
DC's. The file server "seemed" Ok but as people couldn't connect they never
got to access it.
All I did was install SP2 and then 3 days later all the problems started.
This patch fixed the issue. I did both the manual registry settings and then
applied the patch to all my servers.
My problems were as described in the two links I posted.
Now I didn't realize it was SP2 until AFTER I reformated and reinstalled my
ISA server. It started acting up first so I did that and then down went main
DC1 and so I started doing KB searches for SP2 and came up with that.
SP2 also killed my backup and my shadow copy services and the patch fixed
those too.
Definitely worth applying.
Cheers,
Lara
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