Losing the network shares some time after login on XP Pro

[John Lagrue]

I have a Windows XP Home system that shares a folder and 2 printers with
2 other XP Home systems and 1 XP Pro system. All 4 computers are in the
same workgroup.

Somewhere between 10 and 30 minutes after startup the XP Pro system
loses the ability to browse the local network and loses contact with the
shared folder and the printers. The share and the printers are still
visible and useable to the other systems on the network

It does not lose networking! I can still ping the other machines and can
read email/browse the internet etc. from the XP Pro system; I just
cannot any longer see the local network, and I am completely at a loss
to understand what has gone wrong or how to solve this.

All help gratefully accepted.

JDL

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Netware protocol?

Mapped Drive Connection to Network Share May Be Lost - timeout:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297684

 

[John Lagrue]

Netware protocol?

Mapped Drive Connection to Network Share May Be Lost - timeout:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297684

No, it's not that. These are not mounted drives, they are in My Network
Shares. And they do not disconnect, they become inaccessible! Once they
go, I get a message about the share not being available.

Interestingly, I think this might be something to do with address
resolution because though I can't access \\Delilah\Shared I *can* access
\\192.168.0.2\Shared

Any further thoughts?

JDL

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

DNS fails: restart windows, after you go to start/run, and type CMD, then at that prompt type: IPCONFIG /flushDNS and then :
IPCONFIG /registerDNS

 

[Guest]

I've had this same problem for some time. Win2000 workstations never lose
connection to server, but XP Workstations do. If you figure out what the
problem is, would you let me know?
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