We have a Lenovo PC running on these specs which I administer remotely:
Intel Core i5-2400 3.10 Ghz
4 GB RAM
OS=Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 Enterprise
(by the way, just a disclaimer, this is the first time I am administering a file share server. i have no background whatsoever in server handling)
Now a bit of history, this server is use only inside the company. Its use is mainly for file sharing. This server’s motherboard crashed weeks ago due to sudden power failure (yes its not connected to any kind of UPS) and lately its motherboard was replaced. After the replacement, all directories shared were completely accessible, connections going in and out is good, all looked working properly.
Now the problem occurs like this: Every morning, users cannot connect to the file server saying the path is not found, something like that. I tried troubleshooting the problem: I pinged it and it worked fine. I pinged its IP address and it worked fine. I tried to connect through remote desktop and it worked fine. Everything seems to work EXCEPT from clients connecting to its shared directories. I tried connecting to the server through the run prompt using the IP address but to no avail. The only work around is to restart the server every time this would occur, and per observation, this occurs everyday: we restart it at the morning, we work, everything’s fine, we go home, and when we go back the next day, can’t connect again.
Its weird and i don’t want to settle on restarting the server everyday: it doesn’t feel right and it defeats the purpose of being accessible all the time.
A bit of help would be much appreciated. Thank you in advance.
-Sam