Ok, I will try my best to explain in detail what is driving me nuts!
At work we have a Windows 2003 server (DHCP, DNS, File Server etc), 1 Windows 2000 Pro workstation and 4 Windows XP Pro workstations. All are connected via 2 old 8 port switches.
The problem is, every now and again the network freezes. It is usually the reception computer (running Windows XP Pro) that freezes first (75% of the time after opening or closing a word document) then this causes the rest of the workstations to freeze. When they freeze you cant access any of the network resources at all and explorer just hangs for about 5 mins then all is fine again.
I checked the Event Viewer on the server and nothing out of the norm in there but on a few of the workstations there are lots of MrxSmb errors. They are not just in there when the freeze occurs but pretty often. This is the MrxSmb error;
The redirector failed to determine the connection type.
Any ideas? This is driving me nuts!
Thanks in advance.
EDIT - Just run 'net stats server' on the server and there are 150 permission violations and i noticed there are 12 timed-out sessions and 72 errored-out sessions.
At work we have a Windows 2003 server (DHCP, DNS, File Server etc), 1 Windows 2000 Pro workstation and 4 Windows XP Pro workstations. All are connected via 2 old 8 port switches.
The problem is, every now and again the network freezes. It is usually the reception computer (running Windows XP Pro) that freezes first (75% of the time after opening or closing a word document) then this causes the rest of the workstations to freeze. When they freeze you cant access any of the network resources at all and explorer just hangs for about 5 mins then all is fine again.
I checked the Event Viewer on the server and nothing out of the norm in there but on a few of the workstations there are lots of MrxSmb errors. They are not just in there when the freeze occurs but pretty often. This is the MrxSmb error;
The redirector failed to determine the connection type.
Any ideas? This is driving me nuts!
Thanks in advance.
EDIT - Just run 'net stats server' on the server and there are 150 permission violations and i noticed there are 12 timed-out sessions and 72 errored-out sessions.