Re: Mac OS 10.2.7 and Server 2003, Connection Keeps Dropping

From: sideshowblah (sideshowblah_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/10/04 

Date: 10 Mar 2004 14:16:27 -0800

I have a similar problem with all of the Macs on my Win2003 Svr
connecting through AFP. But I do get an error logged in my Win2003
System Log of a 12061 (timeout) when they are disconnected. All the
Macs are running either OS 10.2.8 or 10.3.2 and on my network there is
no noticable difference in the disconnects between the 2 OS's.
Hopefully you will have better luck with the newer OS. I have
disabled the energy savers and even toyed with the timeout settings on
the WinSvr itself with no change. I have 2 users that may get
disconnected 1-2 times per week but most get disconnected anywhere
from 1-5 times per day. Has anyone tried the ExtremeZ-IP product by
Grouplogic? They claim to be able to eliminate this problem but the
software is a little pricey.
good luck to everyone else out there fighting this.

"Graeme van Brummelen" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:<541C602A-B706-4425-BCCB-D92F4C3A1CD3@microsoft.com>...
> Suggest that by migrating to Mac OS 10.3.2 you may indeed eliminate this problem. You could also check out the settings on the screensaver and energy saver. I encountered a similar problem and by disabling the energy saver my problem was fixed. Since upgrading to OS 10.3 all is working fine.

>
> ----- Chris wrote: -----
>
> 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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