Mac OS 10.2.7 and Server 2003, Connection Keeps Dropping

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From: Chris (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/09/04


Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 08:08:03 -0800

Ethan,
  I as well as a few others who post to the group are
experincing the same problem.
  Have you found out anything?
  The text of my post follows.

Thanks,
Chris

My networking post:
Hello,
  Using a Windows 2003 Enterprise Server in a
predominantly Macintosh prepress network for a printing
company. Wide range of machines OS 7.5 to OS X 10.2.8. and
a few Wintel boxes. File Services for Mac is running.
  On the Win 2000 PC and the newer Mac OS machines we keep
getting disconnected from the server. The events system
log reports the following when the Macs get kicked off -
_______________________
Source: MACSRV
Event ID: 12061

Session from user "g4-2" was timed out and disconnected by
the server. The IP address of the Macintosh workstation is
in the data.
_______________________

  The events security log reports the following when the
PC gets kicked off but the PC "automatically" re-logs
itself in so isn't terrible unless it does it in the
middle of file operations -
_______________________
Source: Security
Categpry: Logon/Logoff
Event ID: 538

User Logoff:
         User Name: p41800
         Domain: 2003SERVER
         Logon ID: (0x0,0x4D1E19)
         Logon Type: 3
_______________________

  The security event log for the Macs reports this -
_______________________
Source: Security
Categpry: Logon/Logoff
Event ID: 538

User Logoff:
         User Name: g4-2
         Domain: 2003SERVER
         Logon ID: (0x0,0x4F1F6D)
         Logon Type: 3
_______________________

  The disconnect occurs when the machines are idle and
more often during file operations such as writing a
postscript file to disk from Quark Express.
  The Macs require us to "remount" and "reauthenticate"
manually. It is particularly troublesome during file
operations and appears to happen more frequently when
working with large files. We commonly deal with 50 MB
files and larger. A job giving us trouble today is nearly
2 GB in size.

>-----Original Message-----
>I am running Server 2003 and I have 4 macs connected to
it, 3 G4 an one G5.
>Now the problem is the G5 is constantly dropping it
connection to the
>server. This problem has been going on for the last
couple of weeks and I
>can't figure it out because there is no logged
information on the server
>about it. This has happened constantly for the last week
on the G5 and once
>and a while on one of the G4. Both macs that this is
happening to are
>running OS X version 10.2.7, my other 2 macs are running
os 9.2 and 10.2.4,
>could it be a problem with 10.2.7? Has anyone else
experienced this? And is
>there a solution? I am going to update the os to the
latest versions before
>I leave tonight and hopefully this will fix the problem
but it may not so
>any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
>
>Ethan
>
>.
>



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