Re: Shares are not available to idle windows xp prof. workstation
- From: "Dave Nickason [SBS MVP]" <gwdibble@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 16:33:52 -0500
Susan Bradley brought this to my attention a long time ago.
How Autodisconnect Works in Windows NT and Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;138365
There doesn't appear to be a related KB for WS03. Interestingly, I don't
have an "autodisconnect" registry key at all on my SBS 2003 box. I do have
it on both of my WS03 member servers, set to 15 minutes. I've never noticed
a disconnect from either of those servers, or from my SBS either. If you
change anything, please note the existing setting in case of unintended
results.
"Silicon City" <SiliconCity@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:0DC323B6-DA50-4273-BC9C-73951405AC24@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have a totally new installation of Win 2003 SBS and 4 windows xp sp2
workstations.
I have 1 shared directory on the server with two drive letters on the xp
workstations mapped to different subdirectories set up in the server.
Everything seems to work fine until a workstation user leaves his
workstation
for a while without logging out of the domain. The station is unused for
about an hour. When the user comes back the mapped drive letters have
become
disconnected.
On the workstations:
I have checked the power settings and have ensured that the hard drive is
never turned off no screen savers are active etc. basically that the
station
is always on. I've also checked to ensure that the drive is automatically
reconnected at logon which it does.
Sometimes closing and restarting the application that uses the mapped
drive
letters restores the connection, sometimes not and a reboot or remapping
is
necessary to get things working again.
I'm wondering if this is some sort of security issue where if the server
doesn't hear from a workstation for some period of time, it assumes that
the
workstation has logged off and shuts down the drive mapping.
Is there some security or registry setting in xp or in win 2003 sbs that I
need to turn off, turn on or set?
Thanks
.
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