I can connect to the server when I log on and after about five minutes I cannot access anything on the servers. I try to ping and if fails about 2 out of four tries. I have installed 3 different Nics and they all act the same I am able to view this computer from the server and open shared files on it I also am able to get out to the internet with this Nic I am connecting to a single windows nt pdc all of my other systems have no problem seeing the server. I reformatted and reinstalled the OS and still have the same problem any suggestions
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Windows 2000 Loses Network connection to server 1
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helliphikneau
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hello,
are you using a hub, switch or what.
are you using a hub, switch or what.
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helliphikneau
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ok if u are having the same results with dif nic and dif switches, are you using the same cable to do these checks
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angels1,
A few more things to consider:
1. Ping failures are either a firewall issue, including hidden firewalls, or a Winsock service issue. I am excluding a bad NIC, as you have changed adapters so often this seems unlikely.
Repair the Winsock service:
2. Adjusting server and client autodisconnect settings is a good thing. There were a great deal of server-2-workstation issues handles with the Win2k Service Pack 4. Recommended.
3. You might consider re-doing your logon scripts. The default for Win2k and XP clients is to set the /Persistent flag to Yes.
Odd issues on the client side are often helped by changing your logon script:
net use * /Delete
net use /Persistent:No
net use ....
net use ....
You use the next lines I indicated with ... to do fresh mappings on logon by the user.
A few more things to consider:
1. Ping failures are either a firewall issue, including hidden firewalls, or a Winsock service issue. I am excluding a bad NIC, as you have changed adapters so often this seems unlikely.
Repair the Winsock service:
2. Adjusting server and client autodisconnect settings is a good thing. There were a great deal of server-2-workstation issues handles with the Win2k Service Pack 4. Recommended.
3. You might consider re-doing your logon scripts. The default for Win2k and XP clients is to set the /Persistent flag to Yes.
Odd issues on the client side are often helped by changing your logon script:
net use * /Delete
net use /Persistent:No
net use ....
net use ....
You use the next lines I indicated with ... to do fresh mappings on logon by the user.
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