I've seen that setting to but didn't think that could be the cause of it. I've had 
other clients I support with AD and mixed clients (98,2K,XP) and I've never seen this 
problem. Thanks for the input and I'll try that setting on a machine at the clients 
site today as well....

Cheers,
Tony

-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Esgro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 10:10 AM
To: NT 2000 Discussions
Subject: RE: Mapped drive access failures...


I have the same problem on a NT 4.0 domain. Users connecting to a 2k server get random 
disconnects and they must reboot to retain the mapping. I don't think it has anything 
to do with you being in mixed mode. I have been completely unsuccessful in finding the 
problem. The only thing I notice relative to the problem is the one drive people are 
dropping is the user drive assigned in the users account profile. All mappings through 
a logon script remain attached. I came across a setting on a 3com NIC that allows 
power management to shutdown the NIC. It may be that because the NIC is being shut 
down it is not reconnecting to the network share, hence the reboot fixing the problem. 
I am going to test this theory today.

Ed

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Woods [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 1:00 PM
To: NT 2000 Discussions
Subject: Mapped drive access failures...

Hello All...

I've got an interesting one, I think. I have a mixed-mode AD with two DC's and two NT 
4 BDC's. This was performed as an inplace upgrade (built a new server as BDC, promoted 
it to PDC then upgraded to AD). The old PDC which I'll call NTFS3 is now, obviously, a 
BDC. I've manually mapped drives on this server to an outside drive array. I then have 
the users map their drives to this box (\\NTFS3\DriveF, \\NTFS3\DriveG ...etc) via VB 
logon scripts. The problem I encounter is that every so often, a user can't access 
their drives. If I log them out and then back, they're accessible again. It's as if it 
times out or something. There's nothing in the Event logs on the server or the 
workstations (all XP or Win2K pro). Anyone seen something like this before? Over the 
weekend, I added WINS to my DC and put the WINS address in the IP properties on all 
the servers but it's still doing it. I haven't added it to the workstations yet but do 
you think I might have to until I've gotten rid of NT 4 and gone full native mode?

Thanks in advance,
Tony

Tony Woods MCSE, CNA
Microserve
Victoria, BC, Canada
(250) 744-3247
http://www.microserve.ca
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Tony Woods MCSE, CNA
Microserve
Victoria, BC, Canada
(250) 744-3247
http://www.microserve.ca
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