Re: SP4 Network Adapter starts up late

From: Marina Roos [SBS-MVP] (marina_at_roos.nodontwantspam.nl.com)
Date: 02/25/04


Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 23:11:24 GMT

Get those machines with SP2 up to SP4 and ms03-039. Don't connect to the
internet before you've done that.
You might already been blasted.

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Regards,
Marina
Microsoft SBS-MVP
"Russ" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> schreef in bericht
news:189901c3fbe9$720cf770$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> I have a 5 machine network, all with 2000 Server.  Three
> of the machines have SP2.  Two of the machines have SP4.
> They are all connected using an USR WAP 2450 and each
> have USR Wireless Adapters 2410.  The two with SP4 will
> not reconnect any mapped network drives when starting up.
> They just display the "Restoring Network Connections"
> dialog and then give "An error occurred while
> connecting..."  Once the system tray appears, you can see
> the network connection icon for the USR adapter with an X
> through it (indicating it is not connected) but quickly
> after, it disappears (indicating it has finally connected
> to the network.)  Once you are at the desktop, you can
> start up explorer and see any mapped drives with a red X
> signifying that they are not connected.  However, if you
> click on any mapped drive, it will immediately show you
> the contents of that drive and, hence, allow whatever
> software that is utilizing that mapped drive to start.
> This does not occur on the machines that have SP2.  They
> connect just fine.  It seems that for whatever reason,
> SP4's device startup protocol is not starting the
> wireless adapter at the proper time as opposed to SP2,
> which is starting it early enough so that when Windows is
> trying to connect the mapped network drives the network
> adapter is ready to roll.  Any suggestions?


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