Access to tower broken (Fixed/Solved)

[Swampy]

Has anyone experienced the following?

I no longer have access to my server via "tower" on web browser FireFox or IE. XXX.XXX.X.XXX works fine thru both web browser.

I am using WinXP and also no longer can see "tower" thru my network as well.

 

I tried rebooting server, laptop & router and no change. I have a feeling it is related to the laptop but have no idea where to start.

 

Thanks

[allroy1975]

can you access it in Windows Explorer (not IE) by going to \\x.x.x.x  ?

 

 

like \\IP address

 

does the server have a static IP? or DHCP?  does your router handle the DNS for your?

[Swampy]

No I can't access thru  Win Explorer as you described and My server has a static IP.

 

 

can you access it in Windows Explorer (not IE) by going to \\x.x.x.x  ?

 

 

like \\IP address

 

does the server have a static IP? or DHCP?  does your router handle the DNS for your?

 

(Add on 12-23) It looks like I no longer can gain access thru putty which goes to a blank screen then crashes after 20 sec. I can however gain access thru FTP client.

[dgaschk]

See if you can get to the syslog via ftp.

[Swampy]

Thanks for the response. I had a good idea that the problem was isolate to my notebook. Unfortunately I had an hard drive image of it on the server that I couldn't get to.

 

I did an F11 on start up of notebook to get back to factory level installation which I was again able to access unRAID server. From there I installed my backup/restore software thus gaining access to notebook image backup.

 

Took 2 hours but back to normal ops I hope.

 

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