I have 4 Xerox WorkCentre products (7655, 7545, and 2 of 5665). These all had been successfully working and accessing a WS2003R2 Additional Server as the location of their repository under Network (or Workflow for the 7545) Scanning. The setup was SMB by IP address utilizing either port 139 or 445 (on the 7545) to a subdirectory within a shared storage structure and thence to a further nested subdirectory determined by template selection (for a specific OU). Permissions are unchanged from before this event started.
On March 12 this all stopped working.
I have since determined that I can successfully accomplish this only if either of my Domain Controllers (DCs) housed the repository. A note on this, each DC is on a different subnet, "connected" via a Sonicwall firewall and are also WS2003R2. My "solution", intended as interim, has been to reconstruct the repository location on the "old" 192 network DC. As before this works. The printer/copiers and the user workstations are on the "new" network. At this time DNS for the copiers is pointing first to the "new" network, previously for the MS Networking function it went first to the "old" (TCP/IP DNS reflected this configuration previously).
The former primary repository was also on the 192 network, in an effort to remidiate the problem (bypassing a suspicion in regards to the firewall) I moved it to the "new" 10 network - to no avail.
I have tried;
- Moving everything to the 445 port
- new scanner login ids at the Active Directory level.
- test locations "closer" to he root with less characters and pathing for the repository.
- multiple different scanners (original report and focus was the 7655).
- varying the path depths from the sharepoint.
- complete recreation of the environment
- complete parallel recreation of subsets of the environment (some templates).
- with and without domain specification of various different scanner login IDs.
All to naught.
I would like to be able to resume using the AS for a repository, and leave the DC to its duties. Any additional ideas or concepts out there? Did MS' patches from last week have an interaction with this all?
The error received was (5665 and 7665 format; 7445 was similar): "Login failure. Check user password, and/or setups."
