Re: XP Clients falling off network

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It's ok We all like to think our users are smarter than a bag of hammers.
but often they proof us wrong...

Russ
;)


"Paul Wright" <pwright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OAQfB67ZFHA.2940@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Turns out that Hibernate WAS enabled on at least one of the clients. I've
> disabled it and will see what happens tomorrow. I'm guessing that's it,
> and
> apologize for not having personally verified it sooner. I took the users
> word for it. Bad admin, bad admin.
> "Russ Grover" <russ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:#PBklv7ZFHA.3864@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Do the server logs say anything? like timeout comunicating with Machine
>> xxx...?
>>
>> Russ
>>
>>
>> "Paul Wright" <pwright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:%23jX1%23l7ZFHA.3712@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > No wireless, not hibernating or power save mode. I can lobby the
>> > logging
>> > off
>> > issue with my users, but that still won't resolve the problem. Other
> ideas
>> > (even guesses) would be welcome.
>> > "Joe" <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> > news:d7nod8$bch$1$8300dec7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >> Paul Wright wrote:
>> >> > I just inherited an SBS domain with several W2K Pro clients and two
> XP
>> >> > clients. One has SP2 applied, the other does not. Both machines
> require
>> >> > daily reboots, as leaving them in a logged-in state overnight
>> >> > results
>> >> > in
>> >> > them getting disconnected from the network. A Windows Explorer
>> >> > prompt
>> >> > appears when trying to access network resources that says
>> >> >
>> >> > \\Servername\resourcename is not accessible. You might not have
>> > permission
>> >> > to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this
> server
>> > to
>> >> > find out if you have access permissions. The system detected a
> possible
>> >> > attempt to compromise security. Please ensure that you can contact
> the
>> >> > server that authenticated you.
>> >> >
>> >> > When this happens, IP connectivity is intact (can still ping the
>> > server).
>> >> > Several other posts pointed us toward the Windows Time service,
>> >> > which
>> >> > we
>> >> > have verified is running on the server, and the clients have been
>> > synched.
>> >> > Any other ideas?
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> If you log off while in the disconnected state, can you log on again
>> >> with a network connection, or does it really not reconnect until
>> >> rebooted? If the latter, it doesn't sound like a configuration issue.
>> >>
>> >> I have seen this happen a couple of times, when the machine was left
>> >> on
>> >> but with nobody logged on. Just One Of Those Things, but I'd get
> worried
>> >> if it happened every night.
>> >>
>> >> Not on wireless, by any chance?
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>


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