Server Service stops on its own

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Windows XP Pro. SP2 all updates current
Symantec Antivirus installed/updated

User is connecting to this machine using the C$ share from another Windows
XP machine. After a certain amount of time (hours usually) the user is no
longer able to access the machine through the C$ share. When we look at the
machine we are trying to access we:

-Right-click on the C Drive
-Select Sharing and Security

At this point "Do not share this folder" is selected. If we try to put it
back to "Share this folder" we get an error stating the Server Service isn't
running. If we try right-clicking on the drive again the Sharing and Security
option is no longer there. There are no errors in the Event Logs and to our
knowledge we are not using anything that would disable the server service nor
are there any viruses on the machine.

Any ideas where to look next? Let me know if you need any more information.

-Kag.
 
Still experiencing this same problem... is there no one that can help me work
this one out?

-Kag.
 
I'm looking for help in the right place here aren't I? I mean, It's Windows
XP I'm running and this IS the Microsoft TechNet forums. Has anyone even seen
this yet? I posted it 3 days ago. Linux forums get back to you in under an
hour...

-Kag.
 
Kagonos said:
I'm looking for help in the right place here aren't I? I mean, It's
Windows XP I'm running and this IS the Microsoft TechNet forums. Has
anyone even seen this yet? I posted it 3 days ago. Linux forums get
back to you in under an hour...
Click to expand...

Actually, this isn't the TechNet forum AFAIK. It's a public MS newsgroup
hosted on MS servers. I know that TechNet has "managed newsgroups" but
this isn't one of them. Or maybe they show up in this ng regularly and
use it as a "managed newsgroup". While some pretty awesomely skilled
server and security people (of whom I am not one) show up here
regularly, they are all volunteers with Real Lives(tm) and not MS
employees. If you're in a hurry:

1. Post in the right newsgroup
2. Call MS tech support - surely your company has a support contract
3. Call in an outside expert to come on-site and take a look. There is
no shame in having outside help - more eyes, more ideas.

As for mentioning "the Linux newgroups", that's a little broad since you
didn't mention *which* group or *which* distro. But if you want to come
over to the Dark Side, then knock yourself out.

http://www.novell.com/linux/

As for your problem, I'd make really really sure the machine was clean
(you didn't say how you tested and I'm not interested in getting into
this thread with you). Here's a link to general virus/malware removal
steps:
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_Malware

If you didn't go through similar procedures, you don't know if the
machine is clean.

Look at Scheduled Tasks on that box, power management on the NIC
(unlikely to be the culprit but t-shooting has to be methodical),
scripts gone wild, sharing quotas set, and the inbound concurrent
connections limitation since apparently a server OS isn't involved.

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=314882 - Inbound connections limit in
XP

Malke
 
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