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After sleep PC drops off the network.

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by nottooshabby 1 view

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WinNT 4.0 network with several PCs. Win98, WinME, and Workstation4. At first bootup, all PCs log in to the domain fine, and are visible in both the Domain group and the peer-to-peer group listed under network neigborhood.
I am able to access filesin both the Win98 and the Workstation even while they are asleep.
The WinME PC has two NICs, one for the cable modem, the other one for the internal hub. After first bootup, it is accessbile through the network, but after it goes to sleep, it dropsoff the network.

Because the WinME PC has the cable modem, once it drops of the network prevents the other PCs access to the cable modem through the Internet Connection Sharing Adapter.

Winpiconfig does not list the internal NIC, even though the NIC does appear in the device manager with no conflicts.

Any comments appreciated.

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by nottooshabby

I am able to access files in both the Win98 and the Workstation even while they are asleep. Turning off power-saving would be conter-productive. Of course one can avoid hardware problems not using the hardware, but it is self-defeating.

by estebandelatorre

Disable any Bios Power save features
Disable any Control Panel Power save features.
Do not use a screen saver
Make sure that you have a gently scope of IP address available from your DHCP server.

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