Hi All,
I just upgraded to WHS 2011 about a week ago. I've had intermitten access to the shared folders, Launchpad has never worked and more times than not when I try to log into the dashboard I get the "Your server is offline" message.
I've looked through a lot of the psts here on the forums and haven't found any solution that works.
I could access my shared folders yesterday from my PC (Win7 Home Premium 64-bit) with no problems. Now when I select the server in explorer it says I do not have permission to access the server. I have changed nothing with my network or accounts so I am at a loss. Sometimes resetting the server has corrected this but it shows back up the next day.
I have 2 PCs and a laptop on the network - the home PC could never access the shares and is always listed as offline in the dashboard. My personal PC is sometimes online and sometimes offline. The laptop has had very few issues as I only use it to stream media (mainly movies and videos) from the server. Both the home PC and laptop run Win7 Home Premium 64-bit.
Also have not been able to get web access to work - tried port forwarding on the router, set a static IP address and the UPnP functionality of my router (Netgear WNDR3400v2) seems to not work or not fit the criteria needed for WHS 2011. I never had any of these issues with WHSv1 so I am at a loss. I should also say that I am by no means a networking or server expert - so I may be missing something (or a lot of somethings) on all of this.
At this point in the game I am seriously considering going back to WHS v1. Never had a problem with it. Or switching to an NAS and changing the server to an HTPC.
Any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated! Thanks