Windows Machines No Longer connecting to Shares

Has anyone experienced issues with their Windows machines no longer connecting to Shares on the server. I have a Windows 7 machine and a Windows XP machine that were connecting to the Shares without any issue. Then this morning they just stopped connecting. I can ping the server both through its name and through its IP address from those computers but when trying to map a network drive all I am told they cannot find the server to connect. I have set all the appropriate security settings on both machines as suggested in numerous articles. SMB is turned on for the server.
I have made no changes to the server in the last 24 hours other than to turn off file-sharing and turn it back on to address an issue with Time Machine backups not occuring due to image being locked in use.

i have a vaguely similar issue, where my server is a member of the domain(workgroup on mac) - suddenly no users from the domain show in users panel,
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I've only one hint to you, cause I've mot on Mac-Server.
With 10.7 Apple have switched from Samba (maybe due to licence problems with GPL based stuff) to a own protocol called "XSMB"
This had caused problems with some NAS systems too.
Eventually someone have a glue to solve that, as several users have problems with SMB shares since that.
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I know many people are having problems with smb on osx server, but my issues seems very basic, so I will try to ask for help here.
Basically, I have set up a single folder for sharing on a Mac Mini running OSX Mountain Lion Server. Directory services are provided by a WIndows 2003 server, and I have joined OSX Server to that, and am able to see all AD users and groups correctly. I have checked the boxes specifying I wish to share as afp, smb and webdav and also made shares accessible to guests.
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