Network Drive Question

[Thomas Anderson]

If anyone can offer any suggestions for a problem I'm having, it would
be greatly appreciated....

Our small business has a network with a a server running Win 2000
Server version, and we have 5 workstations, each running WinXP. We
have a router for our LAN as well. Lately, our workstations have been
loosing connections with the mapped network drives on the server. One
suggestion I found was to increase the value of the autodisconnect
function in the windows registry file. It doesn't seem to be working,
although I only changed it recently. For now, I simply reboot the
server and log back in & out of the workstations. Our tech support guy
reccomended installing a domain controller on the server. I don't know
much about how this works, but I was under the assumption that it
would be unneccessary for relatively small network like ours. If
anyone can provide any suggestions about similar experiences, I would
be eternally grateful!

Thanks,
Tom

 

[Guest]

I found that to be a behavior for w2kp and wxpp on networks with domains and in workgroups. BUT I've rarely found the connection "dropped" and not able to reconnect. We'd see a red "X" on the networked drive but was always able to double click on it to "reconnect." Running applications that resides on the networked drive with that red "X" would also "reconnect" the drive

Have you tried that

jwk