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Problem accesing remote SHARE on Server 2008R2 running under VMWARE esxi 5.x
Wondering why backup one of our Webserver for the last 7 days did not work and finally found it. 😉
Problem:
You can’t acces \\SERVERNAME\c$ or a remote share with \\FQDN\share or \\iPADDRESS\share on a Server 2008R2 SP1.
All Hotfixes are installed all updates to POST SP1. DNS, IP/netmask all correct. Ipconfig/flushdns, /registerdns done >
No second interface hidden > no error in events. All Chimney/Offload options tried Bindig orders with ALT correct >
Still errors…
Solution:
This happens with migrated ESXi 4 > 5 hosts with VMWARE tools installed. (What we think)
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\NetworkProvider\Order
Contains a list of the available network providers in the order in which they are accessed.
To appear in this list, a network provider must be represented by a subkey under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services.
It must be a member of the NetworkProvider service group , and it must have a networkprovider subkey in its Services subkey. The NetworkProvider
subkey stores information for the Multiple Provider Router. The service group for each service is stored in the value of Group .
| Sample From working Microsoft reference 2008R2 in LAB |
| Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\NetworkProvider]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\NetworkProvider\HwOrder] “ProviderOrder”=”PDVFSNP,vmhgfs,RDPNP,LanmanWorkstation”
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\NetworkProvider\Order] “ProviderOrder”=”PDVFSNP,vmhgfs,RDPNP,LanmanWorkstation” |
2008R2 reference in lab working
“ProviderOrder”=”PDVFSNP,vmhgfs,RDPNP,LanmanWorkstation”
2008R2 Server with not RDP access and no Share access to other machines or Server (FQDN or IP)
“ProviderOrder”=” vmhgfs”
Working Server 2008R2:
ProviderOrder: RDPNP,LanmanWorkstation
VMware Tools: 8.6.5 build 621624
Working Server 2008R2:
ProviderOrder: vmhgfs,RDPNP,LanmanWorkstation
VMWare Tools: 8.6.11 build 1015158
Reference found:
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1317
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc959369.aspx