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by todd

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I have logon .bat scripts that run at startup on XP Pro clients connecting to Server2003 that map shares to the local PCs. I have some clients that after a period of inactivity will lose their connection to the shares on the server. Then they will not be able to connect when they try to open the share from 'My Computer'. It just locks up the computer for a minute and they get an error saying the connection cannot be restored.
One user even had the shares disappear completely from 'My Computer' altogether. The .bat script is a basic script -

@echo off
net use P: \\Server\Share

I've tried to use '/persistent:yes' as well, but still doesn't seem to help.

Any ideas on how I can keep these shares connected?

I've been also trying to find out how I can map a share on a MAC file server that requires a password - it's part of a separate workgroup and not part of the domain. Nothing I've tried seems to work on that. Any suggestions here would be great as well.
Thanks! TC

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by wizard-09

May sure the machine has a sercure channel to the server google this don't have time to go into it as its nearly home time for me.

If there is only one machine check network cables, cards and maybe the switch it may have a faulty port.

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by todd

Only one client has lost the shares completely (from My Computer) so far, a few others have lost the connection, resulting in the previous problem of locking up and error. We had just moved everyone to the Domain, so this is just one of the various problems I'm trying to troubleshoot.

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