Losing Mapped Network Drives

Hi,

Just wondering if anyone had any ideas.

We have a customer with three Windows 98 machines all
connected together in a peer-to-peer network. One
machine acting as a server the other two as slave
machines. The two slave machines map a drive (drive E
to a directory on the server.

This all works fine. Recently when the come in on a
morning the slave machines can't access the master
machines drive until the master is restarted? I dialled
into there backoffice machine and attempting to ping one
of the slave machines. I got no response.

I got our customer to ping the Master machine from one of
the slaves and they did get a response.

What could be changing the network state over night ?

Thanks

Ray Harrison

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>-----Original Message-----
>Hi,
>
>Just wondering if anyone had any ideas.
>
>We have a customer with three Windows 98 machines all
>connected together in a peer-to-peer network. One
>machine acting as a server the other two as slave
>machines. The two slave machines map a drive (drive E
>to a directory on the server.
>
>This all works fine. Recently when the come in on a
>morning the slave machines can't access the master
>machines drive until the master is restarted? I dialled
>into there backoffice machine and attempting to ping one
>of the slave machines. I got no response.
>
>I got our customer to ping the Master machine from one of
>the slaves and they did get a response.
>
>What could be changing the network state over night ?
>
>Thanks
>
>Ray Harrison
>.
>