We had a power outage at village hall thanks to an electrician who killed the power before employees had a chance to shut down. Since that interruption one of the PCs cannot communicate with the Server 2016 Essentials machine. The Connector pretty much gives me the finger.The other 2 PCs connect to both the internet and the server like nothing happened.
Clients are 2 Dell OptiPlex 3040, purchased and installed in 2020 and a new 3040 I'm having issues with. The two working clients are Windows 10 Pro, the new one is Win 11 Pro
Server is a Dell PowerEdge T130 with Windows Server 2016 Essentials.
I've been chasing my tail for a couple of days trying to resolve this issue. I can PING the server all day long and can PING back to the PC from the server. In lieu of the Connector I changed the name of the PC to the correct name. I also changed the settings from WorkGroup to Domain and tried to match all the settings on the 2 working machines. However when I try to update the domain name to the correct one that's when all the drama starts. "Server does not exist" is the constant error I get.
I don't if I have forgotten something since I don't work with this every day. At this point I don't know if it's the server or the PC. Everything appears to be hunky-dory on the server. I really could use some help.
Honestly I have not had one day of trouble out of this network since I installed it in 2020. This is the second such system I have installed here since 2015. The first one never gave me any trouble either so my troubleshooting isn't exactly up to par. BTW this is the only customer I have. I'm disabled and definitely in the dark right now.
Thanks in advance!