Anyone experience anything similar or could
possibly explain what I did, if anything, to cause the problem?

I'm not sure when it started, but sometime between yesterday and today users
could not access SPPS. Normally, when they go to http://server/workspace,
it uses NTLM authentication and they just cruise right in. Starting this
morning, everyone was challenged with the authentication window and the
realm was server.domain.com.

Now, I know that FQDN stuff is squirrelly and I didn't want to go down that
extranet path. We only access our SPPS server over a LAN or VPN'ed in and
Netbios/wins works ok for us. We've always used the FakeProxy settings
mentioned in the installation manuals.

So, the problem was this: people couldn't browse web folders or view the
http pages because it kept bringing up this authentication window and no
matter what we tried, it just never let us in. Eventually, we'd get the
classic proxycfg message that people get if their proxycfg settings are
incorrect.

So I went in, checked the settings with proxycfg (they were correct), then
did a proxycfg -u, then restarted IIS and now everything's working correctly
again. Why? The settings of proxycfg now are still the exact same.

Now, I don't pretend to know of some other things going on in our network
that could be factors. The biggest one -- we recently converted to Active
Directory. Like a week ago. However, the server wasn't rebooted and I
double and triple checked the default domain policy for anything that might
be related and couldn't find anything.

The only weird thing in the event log was:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Srv
Event Category: None
Event ID: 2012
Date: 8/8/2002
Time: 3:36:33 PM
User: N/A
Computer: GO
Description:
The server has encountered a network error.
Data:
0000: 00 00 04 00 01 00 54 00 ......T.
0008: 00 00 00 00 dc 07 00 c0 ....Ü..À
0010: 00 00 00 00 3d 02 00 c0 ....=..À
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0028: 9e 08 00 00 z...


and that happened at 3:36pm yesterday and I was using the server up until
6pm yesterday.