Keeping network drives connected

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

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" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:1e08c01c454ad$35e82c20$(E-Mail Removed)...
> 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
>
>
>