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I've set up a network in the practice that I work, which consists of 2 servers, one for dental and one for medical. Both of them are running windows 7, and are on "home network" setting. Since last week I've encountered a strange problem which is causing me a massive headache . The problem is that when the medical workstations that run windows xp try to connect to medical server (shared files) , it gives this error :
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but if they try to connect to the dental server there is no error. Every day if I restart the medical server the problem is resolved and I dont get any message, ubt I have to do it every day morning which is frustrating.

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Windows 7 isn't designed as a server OS. How many total computers are in your network? Is it more then 10? – Zoredache Aug 26 '11 at 0:13
no, totally we have 8, but 3 computers connect to the medical "server", and 3 connect to the dental "server" – hakim-sina Aug 26 '11 at 0:18
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It's rather unreliable to use windows and "share" folders on the network. You would be better off running an FTP server on the dental and medical computers, (internal network) and mapping that as a network drive on the other computers. With the windows sharing, if the folder is renamed or moved, it will be broken. I used to use this at home to transfer recordings from the studio in my basement to the server upstairs. It broke eventually too.

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In what way are Windows file shares 'unreliable'? – SmallClanger Aug 26 '11 at 14:25
Windows file sharing, when set up correctly, is certainly not unreliable. At my $employer, we have a Windows Storage Server with ~15 TB (usable) of RAID6 arrays behind it that gets access on a daily basis by well over 2000 people. It is quite stable, and user experience is loads better than using an FTP server. – ErikA Aug 26 '11 at 14:27
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Right, so passing your user credentials in plain-text over FTP is much better than using SMB. <--- Sarcasm. – MDMarra Aug 26 '11 at 14:30
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