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Windows Server 2003 Doesn't Allow Win7 PC's Access to Network Files

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kumagelo

Junior Member
Hi,

We have this pc running Windows Server 2003 and it is also holding the files we share over the network. For the last 6 months, some computers have moved up to Windows 7 and have been having no problems getting access to the shared folders.

However, just today not one windows 7 pc can access the shared files for reasons I cannot yet find. I'm getting an error saying "logon failure: unknown user name or bad password" and there were no known changes on the server passwords since the last time we were able to get into it.

at first I thought it was a windows 7 update so I system restored to a few days back at first, then a week back again just to check if anything would change and and still no access and same error.

anyone having this experience now? or has dealt with it before? need help bad -.-


TIA!

Marc
 
Did you look at the eventlogs on the server? They're usually useless, but sometimes you get lucky. Also, have people's passwords expired?
 
Am I to assume this is a peer to peer network? Where you have accounts on the server matching the ones used to log into the machines in the office?

My guess is the SERVER side passwords expired, reset them to match again. If you are okay with it, set them to never expire as well. You can test this by simply trying to log into the server with one of the user accounts that would be used to access the resources.
 
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