We recently purchased a pair of new servers and installed Windows Web Server 2008 on them. During the initial setup of the servers I was able to copy data back and forth from the existing 2003 Web Edition server and our 2003 R2 file server. Once I had all the data I needed on one of the 2008 servers I put them both on the DMZ and configured them identically. When it was time to transfer the data (C:\inetpub), or even browse, from one server to the other I was unable
to do so. As I said before the servers are identical, the same users and shares on each, both are members of a workgroup called DMZ.
The error message:
Windows cannot access \\servername Check the spelling of the name. Otherwise, there might be a problem with your network. To try to identify and resolve network problems, click diagnose.
Details:
Error code 0x80070035 The network path was not found. If I click the Diagnose button it tells me it can't be repaired automatically. This happens in both directions, server1 to server2 and server2 to server1. Going from memory here is what I have tried so far making one change at a time, I think:
- I can ping each server from the other
- I can use webemtest to authenticate and connect from server1 to server2 and server2 to server1
- The Windows Firewall service has been disabled on both servers
- Disabled UAC, this has been turned back on at this point
- Set both servers to use LM & NTLM use NTLMv2 session security if negotiated
- The workgroup DMZ has been set to be a private network on both servers but changed back to public once and awhile, I think when other Network and
- Sharing Center features are turned on or off
- Network and Sharing Center - Network discovery, file sharing, and password protected sharing are all turned on, printer sharing is not because I am unable to turn it on. Each time I try it resets itself to off after I click apply (Web edition limitation no print services?).
- File and printer sharing is enabled on the NIC
- Each server has a static IP, these are different of course
- I added records to the host file since DNS isn't an option on Server 2008 Web Edition.
There may be more but I can't think of it right now. I tried everything I can think of short of calling Microsoft. Is this some type of limitation imposed by Microsoft? I know the web edition is supposed to be scaled down but seriously?! Do I need to run files to our web server with a USB stick every time I want to update a web page?
Thoughts?
Jeremy
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