Me machines lose connection to Network Drives

[longbillduck]

We recently installed Server 2003 and for the most part has been working great

We have a combination of PC’s on the network running XP, ME and 98

There are 3 ME machines of which two of them, almost daily, once or sometimes twice,lose the connection to the network. The person needs to reboot to re-access the network!

Does anybody have any clues as to what might be happening?

Art

 

[patrick118]

Most of the time this has something to do with hardware not software. Did you check cables and stuff like that?

Patrick

 

[patrick118]

Most of the time this a hardware problem. Did you check cables and stuff like that?

Are all the computer accounts in the same OU? Are there any different policy's at work?

Patrick

 

[moolie]

Are the drives mapped manually or are they created using a Batch or script file during startup?

If they are scripted use the "/persistant:yes" switch on the net use command to create a persistant connection.

Also check the network card power settings. Very common for NICs to have power management enabled (after a period of time the OS will shut down the NIC to save power.) Turn off power management on Nics.

How many Internet Connections do you have? If you have more than one domain or gateway on your network the connections sometimes get crossed, especially on the security unfriendly 98 and ME OS machines.

 

[longbillduck]

All the drives were mapped manually

One policy for all is in use


And I'll throw one more peculiarity to the mix

I was informed that the person lost their connection again, sure I enough when I looked at it, the drives couldn't be accessed

But we have a UNIX box that is accessed through the network via proper IP address. There is still access into that box, but again, without rebooting, the mapped drives cannot be accessed!

 

[vincelewin]

Do you have WINS set up on the server?