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Server disappears from domain, shared folders are not accessible

Hello:

I have a Windows server 2003, that since about 2 days ago, magically disappears from the network domain list (microsoft windows network) and then no one can access its shared folders, etc. Why is this happening? Nothing has changed. How can I fix this problem. Restarting the server works, but over the course of the day, it disappears again.
cheers,
joseph

PeteJThomas

Have you had a look through the servers event logs around the times of these problems to see if there are any relevant events just prior to the problem? Maybe a service failing or something like that? Maybe the Browser service or server service or something?

Once the problem has occured, can you access to server by any other means? i.e. typing it's IP into the run dialogue etc? (\\*.*.*.* or whatever?)

andypun

Try updating the server. We had a server which behaved similarly(shared folders no longer accessible due to service being stopped for no reason).
After the updates, we no longer got such problems.

CEGE

ASKER

hello:

andypun, what do you mean by update? I always have the server set to not update, becuase it has caused problems in the past.

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