RE: Problem with Mapped Drives

I don't have an answer, but I have seen this happen when our customers
upgraded their workstations to WinXP from Win2K Professional and Win98.
Nothing was changed on the server, but the persistently mapped drives became
less reliable, prompting for user name and password. Sometimes you can logon,
sometimes you can't.

It's even worse in a peer-to-peer environment - timeouts when browsing
shared folders, sometimes working, sometimes not. These we fix by adding
netbeui to the lan adapter and no more problem. Not sure you can/want to do
that in a client-server environment, especially if you are tied to other
geographic locations.

"bvanderpool" wrote:

> I have a Win2000 network and now have around 20 new XP Pro machines on it.
> Every user has at least one drive mapped to one of our servers to store
> files. Every so often, for no reason that I have figured out, when trying to
> access a mapped drive it hangs up and you are asked for a username and
> password. This happens to me with my perminatly mapped drives and new ones I
> make on the fly. No username or password seems to work, and the easiest way
> to get it to work correctly is to reboot. This only happens with the XP
> machines.
> Has anyone else seen this or have a suggestion as to why or what I need to
> change?
>
.

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