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Losing mapped drives

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by darena

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I have a client with Windows2000 Professional acting as a peer-to-peer "file server", with Windows 98 clients. The Windows 98 clients keep dropping their drive mappings to the shares on the Win2K box. Sometimes 2 of their 3 mapped drives are OK andcan access the Windows 2000 machine, but the third drive mapping is lost and has to be remapped. Does anyone know why this could be happening or how to fix it? Might it have something to do with the BrowseMaster registry setting? In addition,and separate from the dropped drives issue, the Windows2000 machine has frozen up a couple of times, which also prevents users from connecting. Are these 2 separate problems or do they stem from the same source? Help!

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by darena

I forgot to mention - there is also a windows 2000 professional machine being used as a workstation-but it does not drop its mapped drives, although, of course, it is affected by the peer-to-peer server freezing.

by ivin

Hi,

Lets start with the server freezing up. Thats a NO NO for a server in the first place and thats probably where most of your problems come from. Check the memory on that server to start with.

Always make sure the server is started up firstif it gets shutdowned at all or freezes and then the workstations.

If the server freezes the workstations thats using that particular mapped drive will lose connection to it. Even if you then restart the server that workstation had to be either restarted or remapped to that drive to continue using it.

by jedimaster2003

Not sure how valid this is, but I have heard that it is a bug betweem Win2k Platform and Win98 and networking the two.....There should be no reason that the clients are dropping the network connection, two things to check; 1. The so-called server (hardware etc..), same with the clients (NIC's and any other hardware)....

by spioinu

Don't know if this will help, but Windows 2000 Pro has a client access limit of 10. If you have 4 computers on a Peer-to-Peer network and each has 3 mapped drives to the Win2000 Pro acting as a server then you are exceeding the client access limit on the "server". How to correct this? Limit the number of connections each workstation has to the "server" or upgrade your "server" OS to a Win2000 Server.

Hope this helps.

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