Hi All, I am in a Proper fix and would love to hear from anybody in the know.
I have lost connection to the shared i-bays (is that right) on my server computer. The workstations are reporting 'The server is not configured for transactions'.
The setup is one server with the SME server software and 4 workstations (windows 2000 and XP) all connected via a router with DHCP enabled. The server functionality is about as basic as possible, just providing a domain and two disks for data sharing. The whole system has been working fine until this morning (see below).
My workstations cannot connect to the drives on the server and i cannot view them by typing //server1/primary/shared etc.
If i try to add a network place i can see the Entire Network and the Microsoft Windows Networks and then the domain name But the path stops there and the drives are not appearing on the network browser.
From any workstation i can ping the server on 192.168.1.200 and i can ping the other workstations. I can also access the internet and the LAN is working for every workstation.
The problem started this morning. Somebody asked me to allow VPN on the server. I allowed VPN on their username in users, i set PPTP to 1 in remote access. I then thought i would test to see if it would work for me and enabled the VPN for my account and set up a VPN network connection from my desktop. Once i had verified that the connection was possible I disabled the VNP on my user account and deleted the connection in windows.
As soon as i did this i couldn't access the shared drives on the server anymore and this problem spread to all the other workstations as soon as they were rebooted or logged off and on again. I now have the VPN set off for all users and the PPTP back to 0. as far as i am aware everything is back how it was and i have rebooted my server and my router.
Please please help, we are unable to do any work and are sitting here doing nothing.
Thanks,
Magnus