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by mukeshkumar_vvn

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I have 150 windows xp sp2 and sp3 pc in the active directory windows 2003 server network.when user login in the domain by their own Domain user name and password after some time their mapped home drive and other common maped drives dicconected.
please give me some help

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by todd

when a user doesn't use their PC and leaves it on for several hours or so. I've been trying to locate a way of keeping the mapped drives connected as well. I have to have the user log off and log back in to the server (2003).
Is there some way of keeping the network share connected?

When trying to reconnect to the share through My Computer, there will be a Windows error:
The local device name is already in use. This connection has not been restored.

The user then has to log off and log back on.
Is this normal? Because mapped shares from all other computers will remain connected, or reconnect. The 2003 server contains the only shares with this issue. Any way to change that?
Thanks! TC

by todd

I finally found a resolution for this...
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297684

From Microsoft: To change the default time-out period for the autodisconnect feature of the Server service, open a command prompt, type the following line, and then press ENTER
net config server /autodisconnect:number
where number is the number of minutes that you want the server to wait before it disconnects a mapped network drive. The maximum value for this command is 65,535.

NOTE: If you set the autodisconnect value to 0 (zero), the autodisconnect feature is not turned off, and the Server service disconnects mapped network drives after only a few seconds of idle time.

To turn off the autodisconnect feature, open a command prompt, type the following line, and then press ENTER:
net config server /autodisconnect:-1

Hope that helps! TC

by csuther

thank you so much for the valuable advice. found ours was set to 15 minutes -- caused much consternation. Now set to 5 days!

thanks again

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