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by dat74 1 view

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I'm currently looking at a problem where the mapped drives in our Win NT 4 Server/Workstation keeps dropping out. The situation is this. When a user logs onto the PC and starts working on it and leaves it alone for a while and comes back to find that they can no longer access some or all of thier mapped drives. This has occured even though they have not done anything on their PC during all this time. The only way to get the mapped drives back is to re-log back on or restart thier PCs.
They currently have a logon script that diconnects and reconnects their mapped drives each time they log on.
I've tried using the NET USE command with the :persistant option but with no luck.
The set up is as follows. The PDC is in one country and there are about 1/2 a dozen BDCs in other countries/states.

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by dat74

Don't think it's the NIC card. Have tried various setting on card. This problem affects the whole office staff. All unsing new Dell computers.
Have tried 10half, 100half, 10 full, 100full, autosensing,etc.

by djplaidyak

I know you tried it, but the problem might be syntactical: should be /persistant:no/yes

Remember, the persistant command only works in the NT environment.
Hope this was helpful

by dat74

Thanks for that.

I have tried the persistant option before, but still get the same result.

I might have to look close at the overall LAN setup.

Could this be a timeout issue? We've made the profiles local (off the local BDC server) becauseof the slow WAN link (128k). But still the problem persist. I've had an MCSE look at it and he's at a lose as well.

It's strange how, one minute the PC is authenticated on the network and can access all resources on the WAN/LAN then the next minute is denied access to either the WAN or LAN resources, even though the user has not logged out.

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