How to maintain network drive connection

[Bill Meyer]

I am running a network with mostly XP systems on it with all of the latest
MS changes. I have a Win98 workstation that I have a problem with the XP
server disconnecting it because it has not been used for awhile. Is there a
way to keep the network connection alive all of the time as opposed to XP
shutting the network connection down when idle?

 

[Gordon]

I am running a network with mostly XP systems on it with all of the latest
MS changes. I have a Win98 workstation that I have a problem with the XP
server disconnecting it because it has not been used for awhile. Is there
a way to keep the network connection alive all of the time as opposed to
XP shutting the network connection down when idle?

XP "Server"? No such thing - XP is a desktop OS.....your problem MIGHT be
that XP Pro only allows 10 concurrent connections to it, and one
workstation might very easily be using more then one connection. I suspect
that if the W98 machine is being disconnected when not in use, that the
other workstations are taking up all the available connections.

 

[Bill Meyer]

Hi Gordon

You are sort of right that XP is not a server OS but it can and is used as a
server. Basically it's set up as a shared workstation and it is running a
multi-user program that the other stations log into. Been running this for a
long time and it works fine. There are only 6 stations connected to this
unit so it is not the fact that others are taking the stations connections.

I know there is a connection timeout function on XP and it can be set. I am
just not sure if it can be actually turned off so that the connection is
always there.

 

[Dave Patrick]

The default timeout is 15 minutes. From a command prompt on the *server
side*
net config server /autodisconnect:-1
for no disconnect.

Setting this from the command line may turn off auto tuning for the server
service. So a better solution is to navigate to
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters

and set the Reg_DWord hex value of
"autodisconnect"=ffffffff

If "autodisconnect" doesn't exist, Add it.

(note; ffffffff = aprox. 8171 years)


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[Bill Meyer]

Hi Dave

Thanks for the information. I'm not sure that time is long enough (HA) but
I'll give it a try!!

 

[Dave Patrick]

You're welcome.

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