Topic: VPN problem "no free connections"

[Tom Carroll]

I am having a problem with my SME 5.1.2 server.  I do not have a UPS and there have been a couple of power flickers that have caused the server to reboot abnormally.  When it boots up it completes the scan of the drives and comes up fine.  Now my WinXP boxes cannot connect via DHCP to the server.  I can VPN-PPTP from my WinXP notebook remotely, but an error comes up on the console say "no free connections available" and the console will no longer respond to any key strokes.

Anyone have any idea what is happening?  I am using SME 5.1.2 with update 2 applied.

Thanks!

Tom

[Ray Mitchell]

Tom
DEFINITELY get a UPS asap, check all your config settings again in the console and in server manager.
Regards
Ray Mitchell

[Michael Smith]

Perhaps login as admin & rerun the configuration, clearing all DHCP leases in the process?

[Tom Carroll]

Roger that.  I plan to buy one ASAP.  Do you know which one would be best to purchase.  This is just a hobby server I run at my home and use as a mail server and gateway/firewall on my broadband.

I would like one that communicates with the server when power goes down for more than 5 minutes and tells the server to do an orderly shutdown.

Thanks!

Tom

[Tom Carroll]

Is that covered in a manual somehwere?

I finally got it to work.  I think the problem with the server lock-ups is that the second drive (80gb IDE) is geting corrupted and it is locking up the server when one of the corrupted files is being accessed.

Once I get a UPS I plan to upgrade to SME 5.5, which should eleminate my problems.

Tom

[Ray Mitchell]

Tom
The APC UPS's are quite good and the APCUPSD software runs quite nicely at shutting down after a predetermined time or when the UPS reaches a certain discharge level etc and even restarting the server when mains power returns.
Select a SMART UPS and you get better control & statistics etc.

See
http://myezserver.com/downloads/mitel/contrib/apcupsd-3.8.2/

Also v 3.8.5 is available.
You can also control Windows workstations connected to the same UPS, see
http://www.sibbald.com/apcupsd/

Hope this helps
Ray Mitchell