Need some assistance folks. On Sunday I woke up to seeing a red health light on my little friend here, so of course I went to my PC only to see a green icon for the WHS health. I attempted to open the WHS console and could not connect. I could not access the Shared Folders nor could I RDP into the server. I started out with a basic ping and was surprised that the little bugger was still pingable. I went ahead and moved the network cable to a different port on my 8 port GB Linksys (Cisco)switch and then to the Linsys (Cisco) router all with the same result. I even tried the same exercise with a different network cable. A soft reboot did nothing, so I decided to hard shutdown the server and brought the server back online. That was fine until sometime on Tuesday as the same thing happened again. Unfortunately, hard powering the server off and on did nothing. I searched through forums and support sites and such and found nothing with the exception of a possible corrupt OS drive. The thought of wiping and restoring 2.5 GB of data was not something I was looking forward to.
I finally found the solution of performing a recovery which took some time, but eventually worked. After installing updates and the only two addins I use (BDBB and disk management from Tenacle), we were up and running. I then began to add in the different PCs and laptops my family has and all seemed happy as the shares were still there and I merely needed to recreate the users and reinstall the connectors. Last night everything seemed fine. The last thing I did was set my own personal share to duplicate and headed to bed. 5 hours later...I'm back to the same problem.
Here's my setup as best as I can describe.
EX485
2GB Ram
750GB OS drive with three 1 TB WD Green
Seagate 750GB and an ioSafe 1.5TB attached, both for backups and both disconnected during all of this troubleshooting.
I hard set my IP address as well so it's not a DHCP thing.
Moving forward I think I should recover again, install each patch one by one instead of everything at once. Then start adding computers and laptops waiting an hour or so in between to see if its a machine connector issue (although this one doesn't make much sense to me) or something else.
One last thing about my personal share, I did have an issue on one of my multiple reboots (before the recover) with a folder and files that were giving me permission problems and all under my share. I find it strange that an issue I was trying to fix coincides with the last thing I did before I went to bed last night.
I don't remember when I first started listening to the podcast and lurking through the forums (Mods would know based on my ID creation), but I know this is where I wanted to start asking the questions based on the experts that are here. I even considered looking at an EX490 or starting over from scratch with my frankenbuild 2.0. Any help or thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
