Alright, I have been searching over the last few months with no luck finding a solution, so I figured I would come to you guys since you seem to be the best in this area.
I installed WHS 2011 a while ago and set it up to act a your standard network (no homegroups) I am using it mainly for file storage and media streaming and have my movies, lights out and drive pool addins installed. I have two laptops and a HTPC. On each computer I just map a network drive to the drive pool folder which contains all my files. On my HTPC which is running Windows 7 untimate, it connected fine using the administrator user name and password (Admin is the only user on the server) I do have two other accounts set up to access files over the internet ****.homeserver.com, but the only user account on the machine is admin. One of my laptops also connected just fine using the admin credentials (running windows 7 pro), but my third laptop could never connect (also running windows 7 pro). I tried a bunch of different stuff with no sucess.
I then decided to reinstall WHS 2011 to see if that would fix it, and it did.......well until this morning. It has been working fine for about 1-2 months now, but this morning when I went to login (haven't rebooted the server for about 3 weeks and the laptop hasn't rebooted in about 2 weeks) it wouldn't login anymore. I will have to get the exact error message later, but I'm pretty sure that when I put in the same credentials that worked before (administrator and password) it would say "user name and password incorrect"
My other laptop that was sitting right next to it would still login just fine under the same credentials. I am hoping someone can help me figure this out because it is really annoying and of course the laptop that won't connect is the one that i use for work and access the server the most with!
Couple other bits of info are that I have remote desktop setup so I can access it through work and anywhere else. The PS3 connects to it just fine still through media streaming services. I tried rebooting both the server and laptop this morning with no luck fixing it. I was also accessing the server through the laptop last night. The only thing either the laptop or server has done since then is go into sleep mode and wake backup which is the normal routine for both. I haven't started tweaking on anything yet becauseI would like to get feedback before i start making a bunch of changes that could potentially make it worse. Reloading WHS is very annoying and I REALLY don't want to do it again, especially with having to set up the drive pool and my movies again.
Any help is appreciated! THANKS!
I installed WHS 2011 a while ago and set it up to act a your standard network (no homegroups) I am using it mainly for file storage and media streaming and have my movies, lights out and drive pool addins installed. I have two laptops and a HTPC. On each computer I just map a network drive to the drive pool folder which contains all my files. On my HTPC which is running Windows 7 untimate, it connected fine using the administrator user name and password (Admin is the only user on the server) I do have two other accounts set up to access files over the internet ****.homeserver.com, but the only user account on the machine is admin. One of my laptops also connected just fine using the admin credentials (running windows 7 pro), but my third laptop could never connect (also running windows 7 pro). I tried a bunch of different stuff with no sucess.
I then decided to reinstall WHS 2011 to see if that would fix it, and it did.......well until this morning. It has been working fine for about 1-2 months now, but this morning when I went to login (haven't rebooted the server for about 3 weeks and the laptop hasn't rebooted in about 2 weeks) it wouldn't login anymore. I will have to get the exact error message later, but I'm pretty sure that when I put in the same credentials that worked before (administrator and password) it would say "user name and password incorrect"
My other laptop that was sitting right next to it would still login just fine under the same credentials. I am hoping someone can help me figure this out because it is really annoying and of course the laptop that won't connect is the one that i use for work and access the server the most with!
Couple other bits of info are that I have remote desktop setup so I can access it through work and anywhere else. The PS3 connects to it just fine still through media streaming services. I tried rebooting both the server and laptop this morning with no luck fixing it. I was also accessing the server through the laptop last night. The only thing either the laptop or server has done since then is go into sleep mode and wake backup which is the normal routine for both. I haven't started tweaking on anything yet becauseI would like to get feedback before i start making a bunch of changes that could potentially make it worse. Reloading WHS is very annoying and I REALLY don't want to do it again, especially with having to set up the drive pool and my movies again.
Any help is appreciated! THANKS!