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by larryalbert

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I am having a problem that I have tried to resolve in many ways but have had no luck. I am running Windows 2000 Pro with SP2 loaded. I have several network connections set up but after the box sits idle if I double click on my computer I will see all my network connections X out but if I double on any of them they will reconnect and open without any problem. I have already gone in to the policies and checked on the idle time but that didn't seem to make any difference. Do you have any idea on what it is that I am doing wrong. Please advise, thanks.

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by joseph moore

On your Win2KPro machine, and on the client machines, run this:
NET CONFIG SERVER /AUTODISCONNECT=-1

hope this helps

by larryalbert

Thanks for your quick response, after trying this I still have the problem and other advice?
Thanks again,
Larry

by navjun

Hi,
go to the nic's drivers settings and make sure you uncheck the (save energy.... or something like that)box

i think this is the problem

by larryalbert

Thanks for your quick response, after trying this I still have the problem and other advice?
Thanks again,
Larry

by lizzy

I think that this is a known problem w\ win2K and the first two answers are the proper solutions to that problem. Since the drives have the red X and double clicking on them clears the red X and seemingly reconnects you, I am beginning to think that it's not really that you're being disconnected from the network. This sounds more like a screen refresh or polling issue. Try just pressing the F5 key for screen refresh when you see the red X. If the computer screen refreshes and the red X's are gone, it's not the NIC and network connection. It's a local refresh issue. Please post a comment when you solve this to let us know what your problem actually was--it's very interesting and I have been following it.
Thanks.

by clmcla

The Auto-disconnect is by design. The purpose is to disconnect idle sessions after a set number of minutes. The number of minutes can be set either in the registry (preferable) or at a command prompt using the net config server command. For example, to set the Autodisconnect value to 30 minutes, you would run the following command line:
net config server /autodisconnect:30
The valid value range is -1 to 65535 minutes at the command line. To disable Autodisconnect set it to -1.

Setting Autodisconnect to 0 does not turn it off and results in very fast disconnects, within a few seconds of idle time. (However, the RAS Autodisconnect parameter is turned off if you set it to a value of 0.)

Check out this Technet article for a better understanding. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q138365&

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