Server down....help!

Slime101

Slime101

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Our server is working, however no one can connect to it...the XP machines on the network give this message when trying to view one of the mapped server drives:

An error occured while reconnecting to z:\\newserver\c

Microsoft windows network: Not enough server storage is available to process this command

This connection has not been restored
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Help!

I have no idea what this means, the server has plenty of "space" both in memory and storage - could this be related to the windows updates that came in yesterday??
 
sounds like an NT4 box

silly question have you tried rebooting it ? Can you get on the server to check the logs they will give you most of the info you can then probably google
 
Give this ago on one of the client machines. Are you the network administrator?

On the computer you are attempting to connect to, Set the IRPStackSize
back to the default (15 ). Perform the following steps:

1. Start regedit.
2. Navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\lanmanserver\parameters.
3. Double-click IRPStackSize (or if this registry setting doesn't
exist, create it with type DWORD and ensure the case is correct).
4. Change the base to decimal, set the value to 15, and click OK.
5. Reboot the computer.
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Network administrator.....I'm the MD if that helps!

We are a small company, we dont have an IT department. The "server" is XP based, its going to go over to SBS2008 later this year but at the moment its all we have!
 
Sorted!

We added some new backup software last night, having just un-installed it and rebooted all is well again.

Why cant people make software that doesnt shaft systems all the time!

Thanks for all your help :)
 
Out of interest what was the "software"?

Because:

Slime101 said:
Why cant people make software that doesnt shaft systems all the time!
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Typically companies DO make software that works fine, but you pay for the privilege, something which I suspect a company running XP as a "server" haven't actually done.
 
It is legit, but it is also free.

We run XP as a server as like many small businesses there is no "need" for server software, XP works fine, it holds data, runs programs and thats it, small number of users, low load and low cost.

We did at one point try Acronis - we paid for it and it screwed up all sorts of things, total nightmare especially as you have to contact their support line for their "removal tool" to properly clean up the mess it makes.
 
IRP Stack Size bug affect the server machine, not the client machine.
Try making that change to the XP machine running as a the server, then reboot and try again
 
We dont have any choice though, there are 2 win98 machines which serve dedicated purposes with no other alternatives for OS, its a pain but we are stuck!

I dont get why 1 machine has recovered ok and the other hasnt, yet all the XP machines work fine.
 
We have several sets of spares for the machines from ones we have manages to convert over to XP, i also have the licenses and disks for 98 to install on new machines if needed!

We wholly intend on installing SBS2008 on the server, all machines onto XP for users but currently we have to wait until our bespoke internal systems are converted over from dos based and re-written as part of the modernisation.

How would we go about virtualising?
 
Slime101 said:
We wholly intend on installing SBS2008 on the server
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Please do yourself a favour buy an actual server instead of putting SBS on that desktop you call server. This whole "it's good enough, it works, its cheap, we're only a small company, blah blah blah" attitude is the reason you were in a panic on the forums earlier. Buy a little piece of mind, it isn't that expensive.
 
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