whited Posted March 18, 2009 Posted March 18, 2009 XP Professional desktop users are having trouble printing or connecting to Windows 2003 file server & print shares. If they Net View the server from command prompt, non of the visible resources appear. They go to My Computer > tools and synchronize. Everything starts working again, both printing resources and directory file share resources. Unable to find resolution for problem.Problem is mainly a frequent reported nuisance, but end-users are saying that this is not an acceptable work around.Thanks,
cluberti Posted March 18, 2009 Posted March 18, 2009 If using "Synchronize" allows things to work again, it sounds like the clients are going "offline". What happens if you press CTRL+ALT+DEL and lock the workstations, then unlock them? Does that also make things work again?
whited Posted March 31, 2009 Author Posted March 31, 2009 If using "Synchronize" allows things to work again, it sounds like the clients are going "offline". What happens if you press CTRL+ALT+DEL and lock the workstations, then unlock them? Does that also make things work again?It took a while for the problem to come up again and the user to let me know. We tried the CTRL +ALT +DEL and locked/unlocked the workstation, but nothing happened. The files where not available until syncing again.
cluberti Posted March 31, 2009 Posted March 31, 2009 OK, so it's not a kerberos problem. Assuming you don't have a load balancer or firewall between the DCs and clients that artificially times out connections, this is very odd indeed.
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