Red X's in Explorer window

[Mike]

I have a Win2000 (no service packs)machine that will put
red X on shared directories, yet if you expand the
directory the red X goes away. The machine can access the
directory even though it appears that the directory is not
accessable. The directories are other drives on machines
running NT4 and it doesn't put x's on all NT4
directories. Does this have to do with those drives not
being accessed by this machine in the Explorer window?
This is not a problem, however I would be interested in
finding out why. I have another Win2000 machine with SP4
and it doesn't x any of the NT4 drives.

Thanks,
Mike

 

[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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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
Microsoft Certified Professional [Windows 2000]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect.


:
| I have a Win2000 (no service packs)machine that will put
| red X on shared directories, yet if you expand the
| directory the red X goes away. The machine can access the
| directory even though it appears that the directory is not
| accessable. The directories are other drives on machines
| running NT4 and it doesn't put x's on all NT4
| directories. Does this have to do with those drives not
| being accessed by this machine in the Explorer window?
| This is not a problem, however I would be interested in
| finding out why. I have another Win2000 machine with SP4
| and it doesn't x any of the NT4 drives.
|
| Thanks,
| Mike

 

[Guest]

Thanks Dave I will check it ou

Mike