Workstations getting disconnected from server

[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

 

[J Jones]

Yes it appears to be the same systems. One is running Windows ME the other
is running Windows 98.
Ocassionally another 98 system will do the same thing, but it is primarily
these two.

WINS is not installed. Only one NIC is in the server.

 

[Marina Roos]

W9x and ME need WINS. Install it on the server.

Marina