Mapped drives disconnecting

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Stephen Sanders

I am having an issue with mapped drives on the client computers
disappearing. All drives are mapped at logon by a Kixtart script, and all
shares are on a Win2k SP4 server. These mapped drives will disconnect at
random, leaving no error messages that I can find on either the client or
the server. If we run the logon script again or map drives by hand then
everything works fine. This is not happening to all users... we get about 3
or 4 of these per day on a network of about 200 workstations.

Servers are all Win2K SP4 running active directory. Clients are a mix of XP
SP1 and SP2. This does seem like it happens more often to SP1 machines than
SP2, but the computers that have all the latest service packs are not exempt
from this happening. The shared folders that they are mapping to are
located on a DC for the domain.

Any advice would be welcomed. Thanks in advance,

-s
 
J

Jerold Schulman

I am having an issue with mapped drives on the client computers
disappearing. All drives are mapped at logon by a Kixtart script, and all
shares are on a Win2k SP4 server. These mapped drives will disconnect at
random, leaving no error messages that I can find on either the client or
the server. If we run the logon script again or map drives by hand then
everything works fine. This is not happening to all users... we get about 3
or 4 of these per day on a network of about 200 workstations.

Servers are all Win2K SP4 running active directory. Clients are a mix of XP
SP1 and SP2. This does seem like it happens more often to SP1 machines than
SP2, but the computers that have all the latest service packs are not exempt
from this happening. The shared folders that they are mapping to are
located on a DC for the domain.

Any advice would be welcomed. Thanks in advance,

-s
Turn off autodisconnect on every server and workstation.
See tip 19 in the 'Tips & Tricks' at http://www.jsiinc.com

You can do it in a logon script, or use tip 4195.



Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com
 

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