Any MS Server 2003 Admins out there?

[MrRalphMan]

Right it's my time to ask a techy question.

 

Currently I have two computers in my setup 1 Xp Pro and a Windows 2003 server box.

I have shares set up on both computers and up to a couple of weeks ago everything was working fine.

I use a PDA with a CF card to acess my wireless network and connect to both machines, this has suddenly stopped connecting to the 2003 server box.

It can connect to the XP box fine and the XP box can connect to the 2K box as well.

I dont know what was changed apart from installing VS Studio 2005 on the 2K box.

When i try to connect I get the following error - "cannot connect shared path. the specified server cannot perform the requested operation."

 

This is in Resco on the PDA.

 

Not an issue with the firewall as its not running at the mo.

Virus and spyware scanning is taken care of by Zonealarm and MS's offering .

 

Anyone got a clue? I've tried to google itbutcame up wwith zip.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Paul

[edd_t]

Are you getting any errors in Event Viewer?

Also, I had something similar to this after installing the 885250 (MS05-011) auto update. I had a reg key that I needed to change somewhere. (or i could have just rolled back the update)

[MrRalphMan]

Hi Edd,

 

Nothing in the event log and I don't seen to have that patch or at least I cannot find it.

 

UPDATE - Looked for the registry entry as in the MS documentation at that doesn't exist..

 

Seems strange that the XP machine can still connect, but the PPC cannot.

 

Thanks though,

 

Paul.

[wez_p]

1) do you know which account you are connecting as from the XP machine & the PPC? i'm not sure how Resco works but would you need to connect as the Guest account & this has perhaps been disabled?

 

2) is your PPC setup to connect to the network as a 'work' network as opposed to 'the internet'? i'm sure i've read something somewhere about having to specify 'work' for certain LAN things that go beyond just an internet connection

 

3) are you sure the share still exists? we rebooted one of our 2003 servers the other day at work & the share just unshared itself - depending on how you connect from the XP machine, configurations & under what account, it may still connect without a share

 

4) have you tried the machine's IP address as part of the share path instead of the machine name or vice versa to see if that makes a difference?

[MrRalphMan]

Thanks for the reply..

 

1) - Nothing has changed with the user accounts. It does not use the 'GUEST' account as that is disabled on both machines. It normally tries to connect and then it will ask for the userid/password for the share.

It's not getting this far.

Resco can connect in two ways. Either browsing to the share, it can see the server but cannot browse the shares under it. The XP machine I can browse the shares.

As for connecting directly to the share, I’ve tried using the IP address and share name and this pops up another prompt that says it either does not exist or I do not have the privileges to log onto it.

 

2) - The PPC is set for 'Internet' network, but this has always been the case and connects to the XP machine fine.

 

3) - The share(s) do exist as I can access them from the XP machine. I can browse the shares in Network Places using the XP machine, is that what you meant?

 

4) - See answer in no 1.

 

There is nothing in the Event log, and only one Patch has been applied since it stopped working (KB908981) and this has been removed, but to no avail.

 

 

Thanks for the help, much apprieciated.