Laptop Struggles to Connect to Network Shares

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I thought I had a VPN problem with this laptop, as it was struggling to run apps from a remote location, caused by a failure to connect to data in shared folders on the company LAN.

However, the user is on-site today, and connected directly to the LAN, and I just watched the laptop fail to see most of the shared folders on the SBS2K3 server. The only share it would connect-to was "users". I double-clicked the sychronisation icon in the systray and it sychronised "my documents" with the user's private folder in "users". A few minutes after this, the missing shares suddenly reappeared, and the apps started working, but I don't know if the two things are related.

The missing shares only showed up when the user had been logged in for an hour and half. She can't realistically wait this long every morning before starting work.

The laptop is centrino-based, and has all kinds of connectivity set up: wifi, bluetooth connection to gprs cellphone, home broadband. Would disabling unused connections help? I'd like to avoid this if possible simply to keep things simple and automatic.
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