Question : Network path not found or acess denied to Windows 2003 SBS while logged in as a domain admin on a client computer.

This seems to happen off and on to me and other users. I am a domain administrator (as are the other users, except they are restricted to logging in to their individual computers). This seems to occur about 50% of the time after a windows reboot on a client machine.

If i browse to My Network Places, the domain, and then the server. Attempting to open the server sometimes throws the above error. A similiar error is shown when any application(s) on the client computer tries to access any of the shared folders on this server.

I have set the permissions to these shared folders as full permission for everyone for certain folders, and full permission for domain users/admins, etc. I would think that if it were a folder permission error, I'd at least still be able to see the server's default shared folders / open the server in my network places though. What am I missing?

Server is the DHCP / Domain Controller. Client PC's even have static IP's assigned on the client computers (do I need to assign them statically on the server as well under the dial-in tab of each domain computer's computer management screen?).

Thanks in advance!

Answer : Network path not found or acess denied to Windows 2003 SBS while logged in as a domain admin on a client computer.

I see the problem ... DNS
please review this document:
http://sbs.editme.com/network
You can't have external DNS entries on your client NIC's.
The client NIC's dns should ALWAYS point to the SBS server.

your server NIC is also misconfigured....
the server should point to ITSELF as DNS server, and NOT to external dns servers.
you fill in the external dns servers in the 'connect to the internet wizard', which you should rerun.