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тАО12-10-2003 01:35 AM
тАО12-10-2003 01:35 AM
Problem mapping drives
Folks,
I have a three system network with a Win2K server DC, a WinXP Pro and Win2K Pro workstations.
I can map drives on my WinXP box to both the two 2K boxes but every time I map a drive to the WinXP box from the Win2K pro box, the map works but disappears a short time later.
Not even a reboot is needed to make the mapped drive disappear.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks
Barry
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тАО12-10-2003 06:57 AM
тАО12-10-2003 06:57 AM
Re: Problem mapping drives
Are you running SP1 on the WINXP system and SP4 on both WIN2K systems. Have you remained current with the Critical and Recommended updates from www.windowsupdate.com?
Roger
Roger
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тАО12-10-2003 08:22 AM
тАО12-10-2003 08:22 AM
Re: Problem mapping drives
1) Autodisconnect feature:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;297684&Product=win2000
2) WinXP Pro and Win2K Pro have limits of 10 inbound connections.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;122920&Product=win2000
3) Network connectivity issues
4) Some software is known to disconnect network drives (Roxio CD burning, etc...)
Cheers,
Rune
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тАО12-10-2003 08:32 AM
тАО12-10-2003 08:32 AM
Re: Problem mapping drives
Do you map by name or by IP address?
Is there anything in the Event Viewer?
Ron
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тАО12-11-2003 04:48 AM
тАО12-11-2003 04:48 AM
Re: Problem mapping drives
Many thanks for all your respones:
Roger:
Yes - WinXP has SP1 and both Win2k machines have SP4. All three machines are upto date on all updates.
Rune:
I dont mean red X disconnections to the mapped drives. They completely disappear after a few minutes.
Ron:
All machines have static IP addresses. No other problems relating to DNS happen. All machines are mapped using names.
It only seems to be a problem with my Win2k pro box mapping to the WinXP box. The Win2k pro box can map (and keep mapped) to the Win2k server.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Barry
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тАО12-11-2003 07:25 AM
тАО12-11-2003 07:25 AM
Re: Problem mapping drives
"automatically reconnect during logon" while mapping the drive??
Ganesh
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тАО12-11-2003 09:36 AM
тАО12-11-2003 09:36 AM
Re: Problem mapping drives
Worth a shot anyway.
The other possibility since you map with names would be a name to ip problem. You could try mapping to their IP address. Just use \\A.B.C.D and if that holds then you just need to edit the \winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts (and/or lmhosts) file to add them.
Ron
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тАО12-11-2003 04:35 PM
тАО12-11-2003 04:35 PM
Re: Problem mapping drives
There is a known problem where the drive letters will disappear from explorer, or from "My Computer" but will still be accessable from the cmd prompt level.
This will be fixed with SP2.
Jon
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тАО12-13-2003 01:50 PM
тАО12-13-2003 01:50 PM
Re: Problem mapping drives
Folks,
I seemed to have found a workaround.
Although I don't really want to do this, if I select reconnect at logon, the mapped drives have not so far disappeared.
Job done although I would have been interested to know why they were going AWOL before.
Thanks chaps,
Barry