Mapped drive icons showing 'disconnected' red cross

[Jonathan Finney]

I posted this question a while ago and modified my registries as suggested
in the article, but these little red crosses are still apperaing.

Here is the original; post and response from Danny Slye:

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Thanks Danny.

I've modified the registry value and trust this will fix it.

J.

This is usually caused by the default autodisconnect behavior in Windows
2000. The default autodisconnect value is 15 minutes. For information on
how to change the autodisconnect value, see:
138365 How Autodisconnect Works in Windows NT and Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=138365

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I have 3 PCs on a Win2K PTP network and have no problems except that mapped
drives often appear with a little red cross on them, suggesting that they
are unavailable or disconnected.

The symbols appear and disappear randomly with no apparent cause or effect.
The drives are still available and can still be browsed as normal, so it
doesn't actually cause me any problem, but the fact that the symbol appears
suggests to me that something isn't right.

I have tried removing all mapped drives and recreating them with different
letters. This seems to fix temporarily, but the symbols appear again after
a while.

Can anybody help to explain what's going on and suggest a remedy?

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Danny Slye
Microsoft Support Professional
MCSE

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[Tiffany Briton]

It's quite clear what the problem is here, your pc's have
been invaded by an evil spirit.

You need to call in a priest and have you pc's joined in a
triangle form. THis is tricky the priest need to say the
spell in order otherwise this could spread and infect your
whole PC system.

Hope this helps

MCSE
(Microsoft Certified Spiritualist Engineer)

 

[Jonathan Finney]

May not have helped the problem, but it made me smile!

 

[Tyler]

Not sure if you checked this but see if the share that
you are mapping to is limited to the number of concurrent
connections. I have seen where if the total connections
allowed is at the limit that the red X will sometimes
show up.

Tyler