Mapped drives keep disconnecting

[Bad boy Warrior]

Over the last few days random users have their mapped drives disconnecting with no apparent reason. Ive checked the logs and nothing is mentioned why this occurs - anyone got any ideas? if you require further info please let me know.

thanks

p.s. Windows server 2003 and WinXP SP2 (clients) with some Win 2000 pro clients

Edited September 26, 2006 by Bad boy Warrior

[Hamins]

Hi Bad boy,

I hope this link helps ....

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297684/EN-US/

[Bad boy Warrior]

I tried that and we still have the same problem any more ideas????

thx

[pmshah]

In the old times of dial up networking there used to be a utility that would keep sending out a ping request to whoever to keep the connection alive.

I believe there is a similar utility also available for local networking to keep the connection alive.

BTW first thing you have to do is disable the powersave option for the nic. Otherwise you will continue to face this problem.

Edited October 18, 2006 by pmshah

[stephens316]

@Echo Off

REM *****DCES Map Network Shares*****

@echo off

net use S: \\server\shared

net use Y: \\server\public

net use x: \\server\apps

Put the Batch file in the start up folder in the programs menu should work

[eyeball]

hi,

try this..

net use x: \\server\share /persistant:yes

Edited November 7, 2006 by eyeball

[chilifrei64]

Other than giving you another way to map a network drive. One thing I have found and that I recently ran into was a bad switch which was causing hicups in the network which was causing network drive disconnections.... just a thought