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    This upgrade is killing me. Nothing seems to be working. I tried uninstall reinstall, nope. I tried to connect via remote desktop and it is failing. I can connect to the shared folders so I know the server is up and available on the network.

    Uhm Microsoft, we need a fix ASAP please.

    Thanks.

    Chris
    Monday, January 31, 2011 3:22 AM

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    Okay. I have finally managed to resolve this. I will post my steps here in hopes it may be useful to someone else.

    First let me state that my ISP is Comcast and my OS is Windows 7.

    1. Open the Network and Sharing Center and click on the "Full Map" link.

    2. Find your sever at the bottom, right click, click "Properties" and write down the IP address.

    3. Open your C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file with Admin priveleges and make sure your server name is mapped to that IP address. If not change the IP address to match what you wrote down.

    4. Back on your server node in the full map right click and click on "View device webpage". If that does not work replace the url with http:\\your-ip-address-you-wrote-down. You should now be able to access everything remotely and make any server changes you need to to get it all back up and running again.

    Hope it helps.

     

    Chris
    Sunday, May 1, 2011 2:08 PM

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    Okay so no takers on this for a long while now. I still have the same problem.

    The details go like this:

    The day before the automatic update in January 2011 my home server was running just fine and I could connect with remote desktop.

    The day of and thereafter I can still access the shares, my home PCs are still getting backed up but I still cannot login via remote desktop or via the WHS Connector interface.

    Please, if you have any ideas I can try besides reinstalling my server I would love to try them out. Anything is better than nothing at this point.

     

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    Chris
    Wednesday, March 16, 2011 4:14 AM
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    Okay. I have finally managed to resolve this. I will post my steps here in hopes it may be useful to someone else.

    First let me state that my ISP is Comcast and my OS is Windows 7.

    1. Open the Network and Sharing Center and click on the "Full Map" link.

    2. Find your sever at the bottom, right click, click "Properties" and write down the IP address.

    3. Open your C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file with Admin priveleges and make sure your server name is mapped to that IP address. If not change the IP address to match what you wrote down.

    4. Back on your server node in the full map right click and click on "View device webpage". If that does not work replace the url with http:\\your-ip-address-you-wrote-down. You should now be able to access everything remotely and make any server changes you need to to get it all back up and running again.

    Hope it helps.

     

    Chris
    Sunday, May 1, 2011 2:08 PM