Operating systems drive me nuts. Here's my lan: PC pretending to be a file server running win2k My PC, was on win2k, now XP AK's brand new water cooled, whizz bang PC on XP Before I bought a new hard drive with XP (oem) on it I was having no end of problems with little messages like this After a bit it would get over the hissy fit and let you in. After my upgrade it's been a rare event. I installed all kinds of weird stuff trying to get the lan going but it's been sweet. AK had no such problems and I used the wizard to add him to the lan. However now he is frequently getting lovely "not accessible" messages. I'm guessing it's the "server" that's giving us problems but no idea how to monitor. I downloaded "karens' lan monitor" but the info it spat out was at a level I couldn't understand. Any other tools I should be trying? And could it just be that the server isn't actually used, and because it's not actually a server it goes to sleep? It has no screensaver and is set to "minimal power management" meaning only the screen will ever be turned off.
No, it shouldn't go to sleep like that. Even if the hard drive shut down due to power management settings, it would just pause for a few seconds until it came back up. That error leads me to think that it's memory related (on the server). I've run into that error when partitioning server environments using vmware. Check task manager and check that you have sufficient drive space where the page file resides. If the pagefile says it's roughly a gig and you still have around 2 gig free on the drive, then it's likely running out of disk space, because the pagefile size doesn't report in real-time. That should be it.
t:\ is not accessable, leads me to think it's disk quota, click my computer, right click T:\ then click properties, last tab should be quota, check that.
Hi Sammie My PC doesn't give me any quota info, no extra tabs or anything. Something I need to enable perhaps. My winXP is all up to date.