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The specified server cannot perform the requested operation.

Hi All,

I have an SBS Server with 5 clients that was working well up until Tuesday evening and for some unexplainable reason refused to work correctly on Wednesday morning by not allowing the clients to use shared drives and applications on the server.

I have tried everything I know but nothing seems to work. So I finally decided to remove one client from the domain onto a workgroup and then add it back on again, but now I get the error message; The specified server cannot perform the requested operation.

Every solution that I have seen on the web does not seem to work.

Can someone please explain why this happened and how to fix it before I completely rip what's left of my hair out????

HELP!!!!!
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i have done as instructed above but when i try and connectcomputer i get the error message;

The list of users and computers cannot be found. Before you continue, ensure that the client computer has a wired network connection. Also, if you have a router performing DHCP service on your network, verifty that the router is configured to use the computer running windows sbs as the primary dns server.

I have, and it is configured that way and still no joy...
Please post an IPCONFIG /ALL from both the server and workstation.

Jeff
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Ok. After trying absolutely everything suggested on the net and by Microsoft, I found that the easiest way to resolve this problem was to unbind and then re-bind the server IP Address.

Once done, the clients seem to attach back onto the domain using the connectcomputer command.

Thanks for you suggestions anyway.