Disappearing Server

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I am at a total loss now.

I have an Ubuntu server on my home network which up till a few days ago was visible from both my PC/Win10 and my Mac. The server is for media and backups.

It has now completely disappeared and I cannot access it from either of my other machines. I have made no changes to the Ubuntu server and none to the other machines.
I have tried rebooting all machines and the Netgear router - but still nothing.
Individually each of the machines can access the internet so I am assuming the router is still working properly based on this.

Can anyone shed some light or at least some suggestions?
 
I assume you probably have some shares on the Ubuntu server? If that is the case, check if samba is running and also check if the shares are still configured. Also check that the IP address of the Ubuntu server hasn't changed (if you are using DHCP) and possibly make it static.
 
NWI said:
I am at a total loss now.

I have an Ubuntu server on my home network which up till a few days ago was visible from both my PC/Win10 and my Mac. The server is for media and backups.

It has now completely disappeared and I cannot access it from either of my other machines. I have made no changes to the Ubuntu server and none to the other machines.
I have tried rebooting all machines and the Netgear router - but still nothing.
Individually each of the machines can access the internet so I am assuming the router is still working properly based on this.

Can anyone shed some light or at least some suggestions?
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Samba has to be running for Windows to see the ubuntu server so either samba crashed or the ip changed.

sudo ifconfig
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to see if the network interface is up and has a ip.

sudo service smbd restart
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to restart samba, if it fails then samba has a issue
 
thks all, was simple as IP changing. This not happened before which is why never bothered with Static IP.
Think I may just allocate static now.
 
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