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| Thread ID: 115995 | 2011-02-13 01:23:00 | Can't access NAS box after a couple of days | Greven (91) | Press F1 |
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| 1177652 | 2011-02-13 01:23:00 | Does anyone here have experience with servers? I've encountered a problem that has me stumped. I have a server 2008 R2 machine backing up over a 100mb network to a Seagate Blackarmour NAS using Acronis True Image. It works fine for a couple of days, then stops being able to access the smb share on the NAS drive until the server is rebooted. Rebooting the NAS drive doesn't make any difference. If I back up using \\NAS\public then I can still access the drive from the server using the IP address. If I back up using \\10.150.96.20\public I can't access the share at all. The server can still access shares on client PCs & can access the config webpage page on the NAS. |
Greven (91) | ||
| 1177653 | 2011-02-13 02:14:00 | Are you able to ping the NAS. Do any of the clients have problems accessing the server? Are you able to access the NAS from another machine when the server can't? |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 1177654 | 2011-02-13 03:38:00 | I can ping the NAS. Client PCs can access the NAS and the server | Greven (91) | ||
| 1177655 | 2011-02-13 04:39:00 | Is this server acting as the DCHP or DNS server on the network? Is the NAS IP static or DHCP? |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 1177656 | 2011-02-14 04:27:00 | Server is both DNS and DHCP server. NAS has a static IP address. DHCP range is .50 - .199 so there isn't an IP address conflict. | Greven (91) | ||
| 1177657 | 2011-02-14 04:34:00 | Is the NAS device name setup in DNS, to point to the static IP of the NAS, on the server? I had to do that with mine as it was doing something similar. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 1177658 | 2011-02-15 07:51:00 | I have that set up now. Still having the same problem. | Greven (91) | ||
| 1177659 | 2011-02-15 07:57:00 | ... I can't access the share at all. What is the error message? Anything relevant in Event Viewer? Anything in the samba log on the NAS box? |
fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1177660 | 2011-02-22 08:52:00 | No error messages around the time of failure. Upgraded to gigabit & has been going sweet since :confused: | Greven (91) | ||
| 1177661 | 2011-02-22 09:05:00 | You could just set it up to backup to the share using the DNS name rather than the IP :) Then it saves you trying to solve one of those stupid problems. But it did sound like a DNS/IP issue. Try adding an entry into the hosts files for the NAS if the issue remains. Switching to gigabit should really have nothing to do with it. |
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