Data becoming corrupt while saving over network.

[eno]

I just built a Windows Home Server with an P2.8ghz D CPU/Asus Mobo/Gigabite LAN. I had a few of my local Vista folders like "downloads" relocated to a shared Home Server folder. What I was noticing was any exe file I would download like CPU-z / ccleaner , etc would error out when I tried to run it on my client Vista machine. Now if I downloaded locally the issue was not there. It seemed to corrupt every download I made from my client PC to the shared location on the server. So I relocated my downloads folder back to default and things are working fine since my downloads are stored locally. So that's what I first noticed in this last week. Almost forgot about the issue but something similar started to happen in the next situation.

Currently trying to rip video over to the home server and have had lots of issues with pixelation. So I decided to rip locally to a storage 320gb drive and both of my ripping options I have been using now are working great if I rip locally. No pixelation at all. So I take out my 320gb storage hard drive that just was ripped too and installed it into the home server. The ripped file still plays back fine back over the network with no pixelation but then if I rip to the same 320gb hard drive but over the network there is pixelation again.

So from what I can see is anything saved or ripped over the network to the home server seems to have alot of issues. Now using a portable hard drive I can rip or save locally on my client PC to this drive, I then will plug it into the Home Server and I can playback those files through the server on my client PC correctly but I can't save files from my client PC over the network and onto that drive without errors or video issues. So only files transfer / saved to the network and then attempted to be played have a issue.

Ideas??

 

[eno]

Interesting find....


My wifes computer is on the network and only folder shared is Public since she accesses the main home server as well. Well I ripped a short clip to her public folder and it played back fine. Ripped it back to the server without changing anything and pixel/skips appear again.

I am starting to feel Windows Home Server has some weird permission issues going on which would explain not being able to transfer files over without corruption. Bizarre, any ideas where to start?

 

[ViRGE]

Have you fully updated WHS? It did have some corruption issues that were resolved with Power Pack 1.

 

[eno]

Yes, the trial software I installed included PP1. And I have ran all the updates. Its great I have a working solution now on my video ripping but now one left hurdle to get over and that is saving to the server has issues where any other network PC has no problems.

 

[Fardringle]

It could be a bad network card, bad drivers, or a bad/broken patch cable from the router/switch to the home server. I would try replacing each of them (one at a time) to see if it resolves the problem.

 

[eno]

Originally posted by: Fardringle
It could be a bad network card, bad drivers, or a bad/broken patch cable from the router/switch to the home server. I would try replacing each of them (one at a time) to see if it resolves the problem.

Possible, but wouldn't the playback over the same network also show signs if it was a bad nic,cable,driver? The same content playbacks back fine over the network.

I have tried a different ethernet cable but not a new nic / drivers. Easily can try that though.