I have a client who has an older system that is using Windows 2003 SBS. The server has died and we are attempting to replace it. We have a backup using Acronis, but there is some kind of corruption with the MBR, so we can’t re-image the server onto the new hardware, despite having Acronis’s URT available.
Anyway, we put the new server back in place last night configured as close to how we understand the old server was working. We reinstalled all of the database programs and data, created the shares, etc. However, once we brought up the server we discovered none of the machines would connect to the share. It seems that the machines are all Windows XP Home, and that some how they were able to access the shares on the SBS server despite this. We however were unable to get this to work. We can ping the server. We are resolving the server name and also the forwarders are working using the SBS servers DNS. But when you try and access the share you don’t even get an authentication box…just a message that the path was not found. I know the share is working because I can resolve it from the SBS server.
I’m recommending to the customer that they get XP Pro or Vista Business or better asap, but in the mean time I need to get this working if possible. I’m completely exhausted at this point and may be missing something simple here, so figured I’d see if some of the 'dopes Windows guru’s know an easy way to do this.
-XT