Re: network drives disconnecting immediately
- From: "donald huang" <donaldhuang@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:05:52 -0700
What is in the event log of the server and the client that you are running the diagnos on?
"stuarth" <Stuartmh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:854f5bee-3fbe-4ec8-91cb-87044c5c013d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I've got a Windows 2003 Server on a tiny network of about 5 XP Pro SP3
PCs.
Its been up and running for at least a year.
Recently I noticed an odd thing.
I log into the domain on one of these XP PCs and I get a list of
network drives to folders on the Server.
(OK, not odd)
I can see in My Computer all my network drives are shown as connected.
(Again - not odd).
But If I open the Entire Network icon and click down to Microsoft
Windows Network then ALL of the network drives become listed as
disconnected and I can not access them any more via My Computer.
They're listed as disconnected.
It's as if they got switched off instantly.
(That is odd)
I must have a netbios problem so I ran a diagnostic program from MS
called browstat via a command prompt on the XP PC:
Browstat status
and got:
C:\>browstat status
Status for domain ECSTECH on transport \Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{305CE30A-
DFEA-492C-AB16-ABFAAB
0531EB}
Browsing is active on domain.
Master browser name is: GAIA
Master browser is running build 3790
1 backup servers retrieved from master GAIA
\\GAIA
Unable to retrieve server list from GAIA: 51
But if I log off and back on then run the above, before the network
drives are disconnected. I get this:
Status for domain ECSTECH on transport \Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{305CE30A-
DFEA-492C-AB16-ABFAAB
0531EB}
Browsing is active on domain.
Master browser name is: GAIA
Master browser is running build 3790
1 backup servers retrieved from master GAIA
\\GAIA
There are 12 servers in domain ECSTECH on transport \Device
\NetBT_Tcpip_{305CE30A-DFEA
-492C-AB16-ABFAAB0531EB}
There are 1 domains in domain ECSTECH on transport \Device
\NetBT_Tcpip_{305CE30A-DFEA-
492C-AB16-ABFAAB0531EB}
The network only has the one Server - Windows 2003 R2 SP2 called GAIA.
The domain is called ECSTECH
The other odd thing is if I repeatingly try to double click on a
network drive in 'My Computer', then after about 5 or 6 goes, I can
access the network drive OK. Once this is done then 'Browstat status'
works 100%.
The connection to the network drive remains open even if I close the
drive window. But as soon as I do a browstat status command it closes.
The result of all this is if I log in then at some point in the day if
I happen to close all my network drives for some time, then I lose the
ability to reopen the drives with a click.
I'm baffled. This all started happening after Xmas.
.
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