I have built a WHS 2011 server for home recently using some old hardware (listed below). Everynow and then I will attempt to use the Dashboard or RDC in to the box and I can not. I can access the shares, but the server is otherwise "locked".
The only error in the logs that I find is a few variations of this (counter name item will change and these errors occur in chunks):
Log Name: Application
Source: System.ServiceModel 4.0.0.0
Date: 5/10/2011 6:53:52 PM
Event ID: 10
Task Category: Performance Counter
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: LOCAL SERVICE
Computer: *MY SERVER NAME*
Description:
A performance counter was not loaded.
Category Name: SMSvcHost 4.0.0.0
Counter Name: Connections Dispatched over net.tcp
Exception:System.InvalidOperationException: The requested Performance Counter is not a custom counter, it has to be initialized as ReadOnly.
at System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter.InitializeImpl()
at System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter.get_RawValue()
at System.ServiceModel.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounters.GetPerformanceCounterInternal(String categoryName, String perfCounterName, String instanceName, PerformanceCounterInstanceLifetime instanceLifetime)
Process Name: SMSvcHost
Process ID: 1716
What would be causing the server to lock out the mouse, keyboard, and remote access capabilities but allow me to access files via the shares?
Machine info/history:
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.13 Ghz
RAM: 6GB (2x2GB + 2x1GB)
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-965P (Version 1)
Video: GeForce 210 (PCIE)
Network: Intel Gigabit CT (PCIE)
HDD 0: WD 300GB Blue
HDD 1: WD 2TB Green
HDD 2: Hitachi 1TB
PSU: 550W OCZ Stealh
I had some issues during the install that were overcome by locking my memory in the BIOS to the correct timings and enabling AHCI. The onboard NIC is a Marvell Yukon based NIC that gave me nothing but problems until I installed a Server 2008 R2
driver, it was stable but slow. I have since disabled the onboard NIC and installed a PCIE based Intel Gigabit CT card. This build is pretty basic given the lack of a budget to add in RAID and some matching drives.
**EDIT**
This sounds similar to the post by
pksky, but it looks like he is using a different version of WHS.
