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continually loosing mapped drives
Name: brett Date: March 12, 2002 at 20:00:24 Pacific
Comment:
I have a W2K network running W2Kserver and w98-wME-W2K pro workstations. I am having no real network concerns except that my mapped drives on the w98 and wME workstations are contiually being lost. The users will be working in word and when they go to save to the mapped drive there is not connection. What could be causing my mapped drives to be disconnected? Please give some advice. Thanks!
Name: mango Date: March 12, 2002 at 21:31:42 Pacific
Reply:
When are you losing it? After restart? or while working?
If restarting, and the map drive are no longer there...
then map the drive with /PERSISTENT:YES assuming ure using NET USE
eg NET USE Y: \\computername\sharename /PERSISTENT:YES
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Response Number 2
Name: Michelle Date: March 13, 2002 at 14:38:14 Pacific
Reply:
We also had this prob with losing mapped drives. There is a setting in the registry that makes them sort of "hibernate". It is in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/System/CurrentControlSet/Services/LanManServer/Parameters and the key is AutoDisconnect. I thinhk by default it is 15 so after 15 minutes of inactivity links go to sleep. You can use -1 to disable any disconnection.
I am having this same issue on a network with a single W2K server with W2k-Win98-Win ME clients. This also happens on the W2K pro client though. Other symptoms include slow log-ons and can't ping the server when I loose the mapped drives. Can ping after of short time of timing out.
We have ruled out the switch, router, network connections (NICs, Cables,etc). Put an analyzer on the the network and found no packet floods ocurring.
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