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XP Pro Looses Connection to Domain

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by tech 1 view

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We have a win2K server acting as a domain. As workstations we have seveal win2k pros, one me, a few win98's and two xp pro machines. The users with the xp pro machines loose the connection to the domain overnight. They leave their computers running overnight and when they come in the morning they have been disconnected from all mapped drives. A re-boot solves the problem. Why is this happening and only happening on the xp machines?

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by timwalsh

Go to Administrative Tools | Computer Management | Device Manager | Network Adapter | Properties for your NIC. Go to the Power Management tab and uncheck the box labeled "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power."

This setting can turn off your NIC regardless of the power management setting in Control Panel.

by tech

Thanks - we tried that on those computers where there was an ability to change that setting. It did not seem to stop the problem.

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