I'm not sure if this belongs here or on serverfault, but I already have an account here so this is where I'll start.
In my office we have a development server running windows 7 pro or server 2008 (I'm not sure which as I don't personally have access, but I can find this out if it's important), with network shares for each of the current builds. We've always done it this way, but it used to be a windows server 2003 box.
Anyway - periodically the server starts refusing connections from xp/2003 boxes, and there are errors in the server log about something running out of space; however we've found that someone rdp'ing into the server and running net stop server
, net start server
, net start "Computer Browser"
fixes the issue.
This however requires for someone with access rights to stop what they are doing and do this about 2-3 times per week.
Is there any way to solve this issue permanently? It seems obvious that there is an issue with the windows legacy network share, but is this a setup issue that can be solved, or if not is there a seamless workaround such as some way of monitoring the error log and restarting the service as soon as there's a problem?
Having checked it's Windows 7 Professional
OK I got the error message from the windows server log :
The server was unable to allocate from the system nonpaged pool because the server reached the configured limit for nonpaged pool allocations.