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by graemeduncan

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I have a NT 4.0 network with 40 client PCs running Win98SE and Win95. Occassionaly some PCs are unable to access drives that they have mapped on to the server, strangely though they can see the server as the server will validate their password and they can also run Outlook97 accessing their mail and calendars etc from the server!

There does not seem to be a pattern to this happening i.e it is not just speific PCs but appears to be a random occurence.

Anyone any ideas?

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by don christner

Have you disabled the master browser on the 98 machines? If not, you have browser wars going on, check the NT server event viewer to see if you are having a lot of browser elections. To disable the Win98 machines as master browsers, click on Start-Settings-Control Panel-Network-File & Printer Sharing-Properties. Then change the browse master setting to disabled. You should only have one master browser on each network segment.

Don

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check this out,create a Ms-Dos Batch File shortcut on every desktop from the NT server, netlogon folder, right click the LOGIN (Batch File)create shortcut on desktop and u'll be fine. Every time the client login to the server the batch file will runand automaticly map all the share drive.Goodluck,please keep me updated.

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