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Loosing Maped Drive Connection

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by ctmarlin 1 view

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After a short time I loose all my mapped drive connections. When I click on a drive icon in My Computer the files appear and I have the connection again. Then in an hour or so same thing. I am running Windows 2000 Pro.

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by rabbit_runner

Okay, this will include a registry edit. Here is the ususal caution on editing the registry. Back it up before making any changes.

1. On the server, open up the properties to the share, select sharing, then click on the 'caching' button near thebottom. Turn off all caching.
2.Open the registry using 'regedit'. Go to the following key......
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Para meters
Add or edit the following item...
Value Name: CachedOpenLimit
Data Type: REG_DWORD
Data: 0 (the default is 5) Change it to 0 (zero)

Add or edit the following item...
Value Name: OplocksDisabled
Data Type: REG_DWORD
Data: 0 (zero)

3. from a command prompt, type the following....
net config server /autodisconnect:-1
(between 'autodisconnect' and '-1' is a colon. It sometimes does not show up in these QA screens.

Reboot your server. This should take care of your problem. Please let me know the results.

Best of luck

by cal.williams

At the server command prompt, type the following:
net config server /autodisconnect:-1
This will force the server to maintain the mapped drive connections.

by ctmarlin

Thanks for your reply although thats what #2 said to do however they still get the red X in My Computer.

by kgoodin

Having the same problem. Went to the MS knowledge base and found two articles (Q138365 and Q297684). Tried the recommended solutions and they didn't work. Finally called MS support and was walked through several steps from starting in safe mode to updated the NIC driver. Still didn't work. Was then told it is a known issue and might be corrected on future update. Probably not the answer you wanted but that's what they said!!!!!

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