Re: Keeping network drives connected

Tech-Archive recommends: Repair Windows Errors & Optimize Windows Performance

From: Phillip Windell (_at_.)
Date: 06/17/04 

Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 16:03:37 -0500

Go to the NIC properties and look for the Power Saver settings and disable
them for those NICs. Do this on all the machines. This is *not* the power
saver settings found in the Display Applet, and many people don't even know
they are there.

This is the only tactic I know of,...sometimes it doesn't solve the problem.
I have never, so far, in any newsgroup, seen a solution to this if this
action doesn't solve the problem,...which is probably why you never got much
of a response. 

-- 
Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com
"Jamie Heath" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1e08c01c454ad$35e82c20$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> This concerns shared folders on a Win 2003 Small Business
> Server, which we are trying to access with workstations
> using Win XP Pro SP1. It is a domain-based network with
> the server at issue as the domain controller.
>
> When a workstation is freshly logged in, it can access
> shares as "network places" or as mapped drives with no
> problem. But after the workstation has been logged in for
> several hours or overnight, the shares become
> inaccessible until the workstation logs out and then logs
> in again.
>
> If the user tries to access the shares without logging
> out and then logging in, the explorer hangs trying to
> access the share and must be killed with the task manager.
>
> The problem only occurs on shares on the win 2003 server.
> Shares on other Win XP Pro workstations don't shut down
> like this.
> This was posted earlier, but could really use the work
> around.
> Thanks
>
>
>

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