carlcroom Posted July 1, 2005 Share Posted July 1, 2005 In our small network, there are a couple of servers running WIN2K advanced server.One of these has developed a problem where, if on another machine, we go thru MY NETWORK PLACES - entire network - ETC to the list of computers and try to connect to that server, we get the error " \\SERVER is not accessible. The server is not configured for transactions" If any other machine had a mapped network drive to the server, the connection still works.This has started only in the last few days and seems to affect only this one server.Network is 10-WIN2K machines and 2-WIN2K advanced servers in a workgroup - no domain running thru 2 switches.Anyone have a clue to the solution?Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fastway Posted July 2, 2005 Share Posted July 2, 2005 Have you tried a reboot of the server???Can you ping it??Do you use an admin account?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlcroom Posted July 2, 2005 Author Share Posted July 2, 2005 Yes to all 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peachy Posted July 2, 2005 Share Posted July 2, 2005 Have you tried creating new drive mappings?Have you read through the Event Viewer to see if any errors correlate with this?Have you installed any recent Windows Update patches? Hotfixes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlcroom Posted July 6, 2005 Author Share Posted July 6, 2005 On a hunch, booted into safe mode and unhid system files. I found and deleted czfol.exe masquerading as an AIM component, tftp.exe and msnmesg.exeRebooted and everything's back to normal.Thanks for the suggestions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peachy Posted July 6, 2005 Share Posted July 6, 2005 Glad you solved it. But there is a security issue here as your server got 0wned. One best practice to keep in mind is never let your main servers connect to the Internet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rons Posted July 6, 2005 Share Posted July 6, 2005 Glad you solved it. But there is a security issue here as your server got 0wned. One best practice to keep in mind is never let your main servers connect to the Internet!<{POST_SNAPBACK}> Good advice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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