Win98SE Network Connection Drops

Win98SE with 3Com Network cards, Client for Microsoft
Networking, connecting to Win2003 Server. Network
connection from the PC's drop and have to be rebooted,
not logged off and back on, to get reconnected. All
critical updates have been loaded on each PC. Anyone
else had this problem?

I have seen where Win98 clients, when there sit idle for awhile and go into
any type of power down mode, they loose there network connection and you
have to reboot. To work around this I have configured them not to go into
standby or screen saver.

"james" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:077901c3d39d$09271bb0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Win98SE with 3Com Network cards, Client for Microsoft
> Networking, connecting to Win2003 Server. Network
> connection from the PC's drop and have to be rebooted,
> not logged off and back on, to get reconnected. All
> critical updates have been loaded on each PC. Anyone
> else had this problem?

>Network
>connection from the PC's drop and have to be rebooted,
>not logged off and back on, to get reconnected. All
>critical updates have been loaded on each PC. Anyone
>else had this problem?
>

Yes, but yours is the first reference I have found to the
same problem after weeks of searching! I have a number of
different clients who have problems with lost connections
(either mappings or UNC connections with Win 98 - and only
Win 98 - clients attaching to Windows 2000 shares). The
suggestion that its power saving related would fit because
it doesn't happen when I sit there and constantly use the
connection so I'm going to test that theory now, although
my early .

It only seems to be the Microsoft networking bit that
fails, web browsing and even a SQL connection continue
fine indefinitely.

Let me know if you have any sucess in finding a solution.


Bully.

Take the backward spam from my e-mail address to contact
me directly.

We are experiencing similar problems with Win98SE clients
on a W2K domain; after a period of inactivity, the 98
client is not able to access domain shares. The client
must computer must be restarted and login to the domain
again. Occaisionally, I have noticed some domain accounts
become locked out, too.

I have removed all power management settings from the
client PCs. The Win98 clients only loose access to the
W2K domain shares, and do not loose their connection to
our UNIX servers.

Any advise, would be greatly appreciated.


>-----Original Message-----
>Win98SE with 3Com Network cards, Client for Microsoft
>Networking, connecting to Win2003 Server. Network
>connection from the PC's drop and have to be rebooted,
>not logged off and back on, to get reconnected. All
>critical updates have been loaded on each PC. Anyone
>else had this problem?
>.
>

Try disabling autodisconnect as shown in this article ... note that the fix
needs to be applied to the server, not to the client; you may have to reboot
the client, not the server, once applied.

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;297684

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"Daniel" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:00e301c3d479$188470d0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> We are experiencing similar problems with Win98SE clients
> on a W2K domain; after a period of inactivity, the 98
> client is not able to access domain shares. The client
> must computer must be restarted and login to the domain
> again. Occaisionally, I have noticed some domain accounts
> become locked out, too.
>
> I have removed all power management settings from the
> client PCs. The Win98 clients only loose access to the
> W2K domain shares, and do not loose their connection to
> our UNIX servers.
>
> Any advise, would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Win98SE with 3Com Network cards, Client for Microsoft
>>Networking, connecting to Win2003 Server. Network
>>connection from the PC's drop and have to be rebooted,
>>not logged off and back on, to get reconnected. All
>>critical updates have been loaded on each PC. Anyone
>>else had this problem?
>>.
>>
>
>