Re: XP worstations intermittently lose connection to network shares...



On these problem machines what server do they point to for their preferred
DNS server? Alternate?

Are both of these your DNS servers?

hth
DDS W 2k MVP MCSE

"Ben Coats" <BenCoats@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:EAC17E1A-2D71-4E26-A6CA-2E6D3067381F@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> On my office network, the domain controller is a Win2000 Server. Ever
> since
> I began upgrading workstations to Windows XP two or three years ago, I
> have
> had difficulties. The machines running XP Pro lose connection to file
> shares
> on the server (and other fileservers) after a period of inactivity,
> sometimes
> as short as five minutes, sometimes as long at 2 hours. When the user
> tries
> to open a network share, Explorer hangs...sometimes after 3-5 min a
> username/password dialog will ask you to authenticate using a different
> user
> account than the one you're logged in under, then your connection is
> restored
> for the time being...other times, you end up getting a "file not found" or
> "you do not have permission to access this network resource" error. I've
> been dealing with this for two years, and recently it's gotten a lot worse
> on
> one computer, so I need to fix it badly. Does anyone have any clue what
> to
> do?
> --
> --------------------------------
> Ben Coats
> .Net Developer
> Newberry Pathology Associates
> Newberry, SC, USA


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