Re: Shares not accessible

From: Robert L [MS-MVP] (noreply_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/08/04 

Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 14:44:39 -0600

this may help. quoted from http://www.ChicagoTech.net
Why some mapped network drives show a red x

SYMPTOMS: You find that the network drive mapping may be disconnected after
15 minutes of inactivity and Windows Explorer may display a red "X" on the
icon of the mapped drive. However, if you double-click it reconnects
quickly.

RESOLUTION: by default, idle connections will be dropped after 15 minutes.
To modify idle time, at a command prompt using net config server
/autodisconnect: minutes. For example, to set the Autodisconnect value to
30 minutes, you would run the following command line: net config server
/autodisconnect:30. If you would like to turn Autodisconnect off, do net
config server /autodisconnect:-1. 

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"Stan Cooper" <stanc@firbd1.com> wrote in message 
news:%231qeHGdxEHA.3844@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>I have several Windows 2000 Servers that periodically drop their shares. 
>When this happens the server still responds to pings and is responsive.  A 
>reboot brings all of the shares back, but I havn't any idea what causes 
>them to drop.  When I do a Net View \\ServerName it just sits there.  When 
>I look at the open connections and open files in the System Manager there 
>are none. The server service is not stopped or hung when this problem 
>happens and neither is the Computer Browser service.  I attempted to stop 
>the server service and received an error stating that it Could Not Stop the 
>Server Service - Error 1053 - Service did not respon, but I'm assuming that 
>is because I was connect via CA RCO client.
>
> There are no entries posted in the Eventlog that would indicate the cause 
> of this problem.
>
> Here is the configuration of the servers:
>
> IBM xSeries 235 running Windows 2000 Server with SP4 and all post hotfixes 
> (thru MS04-038).
> IBM Director Agent
> Trend OfficeScan
> CA BrightStore backup
> CA Unicenter RCO
> CA Unicenter USD (software distribution)
>
> These are all Member Servers on an NT4 domain.
>
> What tools can I use to troubleshoot this?
>
> Thanks,
> Stan Cooper
> stan.cooper@kone.com
>
>

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