OS X server frequently looses its file shares.

my server loses its file shares every day or two. web pages and wiki work but I cannot see the files shares on local clients. I have to reboot to get them back.
hardware is mac mini.

thank you for your reply.
I am referring to shared folders. They can mount the drive but as soon as they go to open a folder they get the beachball of death and then it crashes.
We are connecting using SMB. We explored using NFS back in OS X 10.7 but stuck it out with 10.9 when we were told Apple is dropping their own flavor and using the industry standard.
We try to stick as much as possible with our namespace connection as it allows us to serve the data from two servers we have syncing via DFS replication. Also gives us redundancy should one server go down.
thanks again!

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According to your description, my understanding is that you create a file share under File and Storage Services but the file is invisible. If you restart the server make the file share, then you can see the file share.
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Windows 2003 R2 Enterprise SP2- File Share suddently no one can access. After reboot, it is back normal. Why?

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