I am new to the Windows Server Administrator world, and am indeed inexperienced. Everything I have learned I learned using Google, and it has worked out for me so far, until one day something went wrong. I am in charge of a small network consisting of 11 workstations and one Windows Server, and 4 macs. All of the workstations are on the domains, but the macs are not.
I have several questions. My first question is why isn't my remote shutdown/connection working? I can connect from the workstation to the server remotely (via administrator account), but I cannot connect to the workstation from the server. And when I ping all the workstations to figure out why they are not showing up on the network, as far as the server sees, it times out on all machines except one. And that one machine I am able to control fully. I tried to check group policy, enabling remote serves and connections on all machines, but still nothing. I have tried for weeks to try and solve the problem but simply cannot.
My second question is how do I map a drive that holds all the "stuff" that users save to their "My Computer" directory, so that, in effect, they can see the drive when they click "Computer" from the start menu. In addition to this, I would also like to figure out how to connect or "link" there documents folder to the server so that when they log into other computers, they always have access to there documents by simply navigating to their documents on the computer they are currently working at.
My server is Windows Server 2008 r2 Standard, and all the work stations are running Windows 7 Professional. If you need any more information, please let me know, and I appreciate any and all replies!