Hi! After searching this forum unsuccessfully for a solution to my "can't connect" problem, I finally stumbled upon a solution, and want to share it. "Can't connect to server" to be a very common problem for WHS 2011 users, and is probably caused
by many different things. And now I have found at least one of the things that can cause the problem!
Somewhere I found the advice to go to the client machine and start these two services:
Windows Server Health service
Windows Server Client Computer Backup Provider service
So I tried that, and got a 1068 error: The dependency service or group failed to start
So I searched for a dependency service which might be causing the problem, and finally found it:
net.tcp Port Sharing Service
This service was for some reason disabled on my client machine. Once I enabled it (automatic) and started it, the other services would start, and the client was immediately able to connect to the server.
I hope this helps someone, and if anyone knows what might cause this port sharing service to become disabled, I would appreciate knowing about that. I have seen some posts suggesting that a virus might have caused it.
actor39
