Server 2003\XP Pro Connection Problems

We have a central domain controller server running
Windows 2003 Server. About 30 machines connect to this
server with designated usernames and passwords setup in
Active Directory users with various rights and priveleges.

Most of the machines are Windows 2000 based and run
without incident. Five new machines are running Windows
XP Pro. When these machines logon they are slow to
startup but once they do every thing runs at optimal
speed. After about eight to 10 hours the machines loose
priveliges on the server loosing access to shared drives
and resources. If you were to click on My Computer the
fun little flashlight searching for drives appears. If
you were working in any type of document and tried to
save it you get the error "Disk is full or write-
protected". If the user logs off and then back on
everything is fine again.

Checking the knowledge base, saw some articles about
norton antivirus causing some issues with connectivity
but none about Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition.

It was recommended that I uninstall the virus software on
one machine and see if the problems goes away. Reluctant
to do this with all the virus activity of late.

Any help would be appreciated.

I've been seeing issues like this in this group for a couple weeks now. I'm
still not sure what to make of it, and have never see any really solid
definitive solutions yet. I have about 100 machines (XP, Win2k, & NT4Wks)
connecting to 2003 domain controllers and am running Norton AV Corp Ed. I'm
not having any trouble at all. The only differnce I can think of is that we
still run our Domain in "2000 mode" instead of native 2003 mode.

I often tell people to turn off the Powersaver features on the Nics, but
that usually doesn't help.

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Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com


"Jason" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:366201c42951$f7ffc200$(E-Mail Removed)...
> We have a central domain controller server running
> Windows 2003 Server. About 30 machines connect to this
> server with designated usernames and passwords setup in
> Active Directory users with various rights and priveleges.
>
> Most of the machines are Windows 2000 based and run
> without incident. Five new machines are running Windows
> XP Pro. When these machines logon they are slow to
> startup but once they do every thing runs at optimal
> speed. After about eight to 10 hours the machines loose
> priveliges on the server loosing access to shared drives
> and resources. If you were to click on My Computer the
> fun little flashlight searching for drives appears. If
> you were working in any type of document and tried to
> save it you get the error "Disk is full or write-
> protected". If the user logs off and then back on
> everything is fine again.
>
> Checking the knowledge base, saw some articles about
> norton antivirus causing some issues with connectivity
> but none about Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition.
>
> It was recommended that I uninstall the virus software on
> one machine and see if the problems goes away. Reluctant
> to do this with all the virus activity of late.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.

We have recently upgraded to Server 2003 and are
experiencing similiar issues. Our clients include
WinNT4.0, 2000, & XP, and we also run SAV corporate
edition. Our domain is 2003 mode.
>-----Original Message-----
>I've been seeing issues like this in this group for a
couple weeks now. I'm
>still not sure what to make of it, and have never see any
really solid
>definitive solutions yet. I have about 100 machines (XP,
Win2k, & NT4Wks)
>connecting to 2003 domain controllers and am running
Norton AV Corp Ed. I'm
>not having any trouble at all. The only differnce I can
think of is that we
>still run our Domain in "2000 mode" instead of native 2003
mode.
>
>I often tell people to turn off the Powersaver features on
the Nics, but
>that usually doesn't help.
>
>--
>
>Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
>www.wandtv.com
>
>
>"Jason" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:366201c42951$f7ffc200$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> We have a central domain controller server running
>> Windows 2003 Server. About 30 machines connect to this
>> server with designated usernames and passwords setup in
>> Active Directory users with various rights and priveleges.
>>
>> Most of the machines are Windows 2000 based and run
>> without incident. Five new machines are running Windows
>> XP Pro. When these machines logon they are slow to
>> startup but once they do every thing runs at optimal
>> speed. After about eight to 10 hours the machines loose
>> priveliges on the server loosing access to shared drives
>> and resources. If you were to click on My Computer the
>> fun little flashlight searching for drives appears. If
>> you were working in any type of document and tried to
>> save it you get the error "Disk is full or write-
>> protected". If the user logs off and then back on
>> everything is fine again.
>>
>> Checking the knowledge base, saw some articles about
>> norton antivirus causing some issues with connectivity
>> but none about Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition.
>>
>> It was recommended that I uninstall the virus software on
>> one machine and see if the problems goes away. Reluctant
>> to do this with all the virus activity of late.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>
>
>.
>