Re: "Specified network name no longer available" after transferring fi

From: Steve Winograd [MVP] (winograd_at_pobox.com)
Date: 11/06/04 

Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2004 16:15:47 -0700

In article <04D6E07E-52E8-4070-A9BC-659497153B2C@microsoft.com>,
"JohnQ" <JohnQ@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>At what appears to be random intervals when transferring files from my
>laptop to my desktop, I get this message "The specified network name is no
>longer available." and then the windows explorer window on the destination
>locks up. I can still use the destination but that particular window is
>frozen and I have to reboot to get rid of it. There is no problem seeing the
>various shares and starting the file transfers (5-10gb) but after a while
>this message pops up and I'm hosed. I've tried copying individual directories
>and eventually run into the same thing. Never the same file.
>
>Relevant info: Windows XP Home, SP2 on both machines. Source is a notebook,
>destination is desktop. I've tried this using both direct connect with
>Firewire between the two machines and over 100mb Ethernet.
>
>Power-saver settings and screen-savers on both machines are completely off.
>Firewalls on both sides are disabled.
>
>In googling this, there was one other person on the cdnet forums who had
>exactly the same problem but never received an answer. I've looked in the MS
>Knowledgebase and read the FAQ's.
>
>Thanks,
>John Q.

My first suggestion for that error would usually be to download and
install the latest network card drivers. But, since this happens on
both Ethernet and Firewire, I'm doubtful that it would help. Still,
it can't hurt.

What disk format does each computer use? NTFS should have no problem
with multi-gigabyte files and transfers, but FAT32 could. 

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