XP Clients disconnecting from Win2000 server during the day.

[Rob Jones]

I am the IT Director for a logistics company and have been
having this problem for a few months. I have a Windows
2000 Server no a Dell Server box running as the primary
domain controller. I have a mixed client environment in
the domain with Windows 2000 Professional clients and now
XP Professional clients also.

Lately, the XP clients have been getting regular
disconnects from the domain controller and the shares on
it throughout the day. If I log off the user and log them
back in, sometimes it fixes it, sometimes it doesn't. If I
log them out and log myself in...then log them back in, it
works...till the next disconnect. They are not losing
their network ability to the internet just to the domain
controller and shares/printers. I have updated just about
all of the XP clients and am leaning toward the idea that
this might be a server problem. Here are some network
specifics:

All clients have static address.
Primary DNS server for clients is the PDC.
The Server is a Dell as well as the new Dell Workstations.
Everyone is up to date on their virus definitions.
There is nothing about these events in the logs on the
server or the clients.

Can anyone shed their insight on this issue because it is
killing me and my users are getting annoyed at not being
able to save their work on the shares when they get
disconnected.

Thank you very much.

 

[Marina Roos]

Put the XP-nics on anything but autosense.
Have a look at articles 810907, 329170, 812937, 811492, 321169 and 296264
for issues about XP with W2K-server.

Marina