vasu_nukal
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Hai Everybody,
Iam facing a peculair problem with windows2000 server with service pack4. The network structure is like this. The main server is windows2000 advanced server with service pack 4 and the clients are windows 98 and windowsXP.
The things were going smoothly and one fine day all the clients were unable to Logon to the server it gives the error message " No domain servers are available to validate the username and password". But from the clients we are able to ping the server IP address. On the server when iam trying to ping all the clients they are pinging but when trying to access shared resource in the network it gives the following error message on the server " Network path not found" but to that system iam able to ping. From the server i am able to browse the internet without any problem.
I had gone through the following steps"
1. I had checked the server for any viruses but nothing was found. tested with AVG, NOD32,
Kaspersky and CA antivirus software also ran the spybot for the removal of spyware.
2. I had downloaded the security update from the Microsoft downloads and updated.
3. Since i am having some softwares installed which are very important that i cannot format
and reinstall the OS
Please hep me in this regard and resove the this issue . Waiting for a positive reply from you people.
Vasu
Customer Support Engineer.
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It looks like a DNS (or even DHCP related) problem. Can you provide the event log errors?
Check your WINS configuration on the server, you can stop the WINS server service and deleted the database files, then restart the service and it will rebuild them. Also check your DHCP configuration and make sure that your WINS server is listed in the scope you are using. Did you change an IP address or something?
If you are using only DNS from Microsoft check your system logs for DNS errors. Since it's a 2000 server and you have older clients, you might want to make sure that WINS is running on the network.
I'm guessing that your WINS server service is having problems, your log files should point you in the right direction.
Cheers,
Shoota