Frustrated beyond belief

[Guest]

Greetings,
I have two network drives that I've mapped out. They work fine throughout
the business day, however at some point overnight they disconnect and cannot
be reconnected.

I have to restart my computer in order to have them connected again. Why
does Windows XP disconnect my network drives and what can I do to stop it?
Thank you.

Rod.

 

[Yves Leclerc]

These networked drives, are they USB, mapped from a different PC or directly
on the network (via a Ethernet RJ-45 cable?)

You might want to check you network adapter so as to see if there is no
problems with it.

 

[Guest]

These are mapped from a different PC over our company network. So my
computer has a mapped drive which exists on another computer.

Rod

 

[Leythos]

These are mapped from a different PC over our company network. So my
computer has a mapped drive which exists on another computer.

That's a bad model to use. You should connected shared resources to the
server.

When you connect shared resources at the local computer level you need
to make sure that both computers have matching user/password accounts
and that both have access to the shared resource. Then you have to pay
attention to the 5/10 connection limit of Home/Prof.

 

[Guest]

I should clarify.
One of my network drives is mapped to an application loaded on another
computer
The other of my network drives is mapped to our "public" drive within our
network

This thing is that both drives work great, except that overnight they
disconnect at my computer and I cannot re-connect them unless I restart my
computer.

All I know is that since I've upgraded my computer to Windows XP I have
experienced this problem; Windows 2000 was working fine.

Any ideas? Thank you.

Rod