XP/2003 and mapped drives

[Bryan Ricke]

I have 5 Win XP workstations connecting to a Windows 2003
server. 4 of these workstations are registers, while the
5th processes credit cards. The 4 all map a drive to a
shared folder on the 5th pc. Every day the 4 registers
will lose their mapped drive connection to the 5th
computer, and if you try to browse to it through My
Computer you get an error saying the drive is unavailable.
We are currently restarting the machines every morning and
they work fine all day, but overnight they seem to time
out and lose the connection. I've made sure all power
saving settings for the NIC are turned off. Please advise.
Thanks.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

I have 5 Win XP workstations connecting to a Windows 2003
server. 4 of these workstations are registers, while the
5th processes credit cards. The 4 all map a drive to a
shared folder on the 5th pc. Every day the 4 registers
will lose their mapped drive connection to the 5th
computer, and if you try to browse to it through My
Computer you get an error saying the drive is unavailable.
We are currently restarting the machines every morning and
they work fine all day, but overnight they seem to time
out and lose the connection. I've made sure all power
saving settings for the NIC are turned off. Please advise.
Thanks.

See if this helps:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q138365&

My question is, why are you sharing stuff from a workstation rather than
having everyone use shares on your server? Can the credit card app on the XP
box use a data folder on the server rather than a local one? Nicer for
centralized management, backup, security, etc....

 

[Bryan Ricke]

When I came to this company 2 years ago, they had a
seperate PC in each store that processed credit cards. The
program we use is very intensive and will use 100% of
processor duty all the time, which is why it's not on the
server.

Thanks for the link. I will check it out.