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I have a Windows 2012 R2 Essentials server which is a domain controller. My Windows 7 machine is joined to the domain but I normally log on to it using a non-domain, local account as it has a ton of software installed over many years which was installed by that user and I not only have no desire to start over but am not organized enough to be confident that I would ever even find everything necessary to reinstall everything.
The server's main purpose is doing backups of computers in the network but I also used it as a file server -- it has several shares which together contain multiple Terabytes of data. Until recently this all worked fine. Recently, however, my Windows 7 machine (or, at least, the local user) has lost access to the server. I had drives mapped to the network shares and all show as unavailable. I can see the server in the list of network computers but any attempt to access it results in "<server> is not accessible. You might not have permission to access this network resource".
Access to my Windows 7 machine from the server works fine. I can connect to the server from W7 with RDP. Backups are continuing successfully. I can launch the Server Dashboard on my W7 machine but opening shares that way doesn't work either and if I attempt to restore backed up files, it fails with an unknown error when I try to access the list of files.
My W7 machine used to be a Homegroup controller but now it indicates that there is no homegroup and that it can't be a member of one because my network location is not "Home". (the network location is Domain -- and frankly, my memory is that it used to be "Home" even after I connected the computer to the domain, but my memory isn't that good).
Again, this all worked fine until a few months ago. I suspect that a Windows update on one of the machines changed something but I have no idea what or which. I haven't been making any system changes that I can recall.
Can anyone, please, help me figure this thing out? Right now I have a lot of files I can't access and I'm worried about the status of my backups -- while I suspect that a full system restore would work (since it wouldn't be Windows 7 which would be doing the restore but the the system restore software) the fact that things are so screwed up doesn't make me feel very safe. And if I get to the point where I need to restore a single file -- a full system restore may be the only way to do it at this point.
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The server's main purpose is doing backups of computers in the network but I also used it as a file server -- it has several shares which together contain multiple Terabytes of data. Until recently this all worked fine. Recently, however, my Windows 7 machine (or, at least, the local user) has lost access to the server. I had drives mapped to the network shares and all show as unavailable. I can see the server in the list of network computers but any attempt to access it results in "<server> is not accessible. You might not have permission to access this network resource".
Access to my Windows 7 machine from the server works fine. I can connect to the server from W7 with RDP. Backups are continuing successfully. I can launch the Server Dashboard on my W7 machine but opening shares that way doesn't work either and if I attempt to restore backed up files, it fails with an unknown error when I try to access the list of files.
My W7 machine used to be a Homegroup controller but now it indicates that there is no homegroup and that it can't be a member of one because my network location is not "Home". (the network location is Domain -- and frankly, my memory is that it used to be "Home" even after I connected the computer to the domain, but my memory isn't that good).
Again, this all worked fine until a few months ago. I suspect that a Windows update on one of the machines changed something but I have no idea what or which. I haven't been making any system changes that I can recall.
Can anyone, please, help me figure this thing out? Right now I have a lot of files I can't access and I'm worried about the status of my backups -- while I suspect that a full system restore would work (since it wouldn't be Windows 7 which would be doing the restore but the the system restore software) the fact that things are so screwed up doesn't make me feel very safe. And if I get to the point where I need to restore a single file -- a full system restore may be the only way to do it at this point.
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