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File Shares quit working on Windows Server 2000 file server
All of the file shares which have been used forever have quit working on our Windows Server 2000 file server. We had a couple of viruses (win32.virut, trojan.adh, etc.) and after cleaning those off the shares no longer work. I really need these, they are vital and I can't for the life of me figure out how make sharing resume. New shares aren’t working either. I tried setting up new ones to test with but can't connect to them either. I'm wondering if a dll is corrupt or if a service I need is stopped (although I have checked those and everything seems okay there). Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks.
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When I look under system tools\shared folders the shares are there (all ten of them). The permissions look correct when I view them. From a command prompt if I type net share I see all the shares listed also. If I try to use net use and map the drive that way, I get network path was not found, system error 53. These shares have existed for years and haven't been modified in any way from my standpoint. I am suspecting the virus has modified the share permissions somehow. I couldn't run tsadmin earlier either. The administrator rights were removed from the executable but once we put those back I could run it. Somehow this is all tied together. I'm just not sure how to make sharing work again.
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No. I actually just got this fixed. Turns out there was an IPSEC security policy enabled that blocked NetBIOS traffic. Once it was turned off, bam, sharing worked again. Thanks for all of the suggestions. I'm going to split up the points between the answers.
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Didn't fix it but I appreciate the help trying.
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