server connection problems

J

J Jones

Have a Windows 2000 server setup. Windows 98, ME, 2000, and XP Pro clients.
About 19 connections to the server. 25 user license on the server.

Server was Novel 3.2 then upgraded to 2000.

Having problems with some workstations getting locked out of the server.
They will suddenly not have connections to the mapped drives. Trying to
reconnect will give them a security error. Logging off and then back on
does not help. The workstations have to be rebooted to get the connection
back on.

Has anyone seen this. Had a friend of mine say that he had a problem with
this on a server he was managing. He had been using VB scripts for logon.
He said once he swapped to just batch files he was good to go. Currently we
are not running any scripts on the network. There are not enough mapped
drives to make this neccessary.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Jon
 
O

Oli Restorick

What is the exact error message you're getting?

Are you getting it consistently across all clients?

Note that this is a newsgroup related to setup and deployment issues. I
would say that microsoft.public.win2000.networking would be a better bet.

Cheers

Oli
 
O

Oli Restorick

That crossed my mind, but once the name's been resolved, it should be cached
by the WINS client, shouldn't it?

Therefore, either the drive would map or it wouldn't. You wouldn't expect
connections to just drop.

Still, I draw the line at helping people to run WIndows 98/ME in a business
environment. It wouldn't be doing them any favours.

Cheers

Oli
 
N

NIC Student

Hi Oli,

You are right about the caching names, but lots of things can mess it up and
if there is no WINS server to keep it straight ..., also if machines get
removed from one domain and added to another I've seen name resolution get
screwed up. Lots a things can happen in a workgroup environment too.

I agree about the 9x client thing... we still have plenty of them, and
plenty of OS7 through 9 Macs too. We have about 3200 machines in our school
district, about 60% are 2000 or XP, the rest are 9x/mac. It's getting
better, but not fast enough for us IT folks.
 

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