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I need some assistance with a Linux server... Our business has a Linux server, running "SME Server", which is a preconfigured Linux server designed for small to medium businesses. It's ...
  1. 01-01-2007 #1
    BadBoyMitch
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    Linux Server Trouble

    I need some assistance with a Linux server...
    Our business has a Linux server, running "SME Server", which is a preconfigured Linux server designed for small to medium businesses. It's currently handling an MS Access Database with 10,000+ members, and up till now it's been working fine.
    Here's the deal... My server started to boot incorrectly and sometimes not boot at all.
    I found the cause to be a completely full HDD, like 0 bytes free!!
    I decided to ghost the server's 2Gb HDD onto a 20Gb HDD, which worked fine. It has a total of 5 partitions, and all were ghosted successfully.
    After ghosting was complete, I used Partition Magic to upsize the storage partition from 500Mb to 15Gb, else it would still only amount to a 2Gb drive. I left the OS partition and swap space alone. So far so good.
    The server now boots correctly again, with it's new HDD.
    My problem is: The server will no longer talk to other (Windows) computers on the network, like they were before the ghosting. Neither can I re-connect the network drives on the Windows machines.
    The server uses 2 ethernet cards, one for the ADSL router and the other to a switch (for the Windows workstations to connect to.)
    What can the problem be? Technically the only change to the server is a larger storage partition... Or is it?

    Hope someone can help!!
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  2. 01-02-2007 #2
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    Possibly some file corruption. Does df show any of the other partitions almost full? Is Samba running? Can they talk via something like ssh?
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  3. 01-02-2007 #3
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    Quote Originally Posted by likwid
    Possibly some file corruption. Does df show any of the other partitions almost full? Is Samba running? Can they talk via something like ssh?
    I don't know enough about Linux to answer you...
    There is a service called "SMB" which shows up as "OK" when the server is booting.

    What is SSH?
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  4. 01-03-2007 #4
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    SSH is secure shell. It is a service that allows computers to connect to a command line interface through an encrypted tunnel.

    Is this a redhat based distribution?

    Open up a terminal on the server and type

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    ps aux | grep ssh
    If ssh is running, you should at the very least be able to telnet to the server on port 22 from one of the machines connected to the switch. This can be done by going to start-> run-> cmd then typing
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    telnet servername 22
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