Users can't logon

[cosmoh2o]

Please Help,

I am new to the windows 2000 server enviroment (having come from a Linux background) and have come across an error I am hoping someone has seen before. Our Windows 2000 server runs with Mac OS and PC clients and every 3-4 weeks the server does not allow anyone to logon. I can still ping the server and the IP is the same however the monitor for the server is black (we use a Monitor that runs over TCP/IP connections in our server room). The only way I can get everything back up is by physically unplugging the machine and plugging it back in.

Has anyone ever seen this problem before? Thanks for any help/hints.

 

[rzs0502]

Are you running any kind of power management on the server?

 

[cosmoh2o]

We have a group of backup batteries for all our servers however only this particular server has the problem that I described. Do you think it may be a hardware error?

 

[paintballer]

Are all the machines running DHCP?

 

[cosmoh2o]

yes, all of the machines are running DHCP.