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Loosing mapped drives connections

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by jf555 2 views

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We have a Standard edition Windows 2003 server w/o Active directorey, only only shared folder with a workgroup. Have mapped several folders on the server to be drive letters from various individual computers. After about one month, some computers get this message after reboot" Could not connect to all mapped drives, etc." If I then use Explorer, click on the drive with the red X on it, a get a login window with theuser name and passwor option. Once I login, the drive becomes avaialble.
I have specifically set the initial drive mapping to "remeber the password". Also, when I try to exlore the server's drives, nothing shows up after the timeout period. We have 8 computers connected to thius server, 5 work fine, the other three show this behavior, any and all hints would be appreciated, thanks,

Jeff

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by ð

Check the power management in the NIC card setting. Make sure that is disable. If your on an ethernet 100 full network, force the NIC speed to 100 full duplex.

by sysengineer

Hi.

Have you tried mapping the drives with a batch
file (logon script) using the net use command. This way, unless the script gets deleted you should get mapped to those drives at every logon.

You can use the MMC snap-in Group Policy to apply the logon scripts (User Configuration > Scripts)or you can copy them to:

%systemroot%\system32\grouppolicy\user\scripts\logon

Hope this helps.

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