Machines dropping off network

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James

I have a network consisting of Win2000 Servers and Win98 Clients. I also
have two or three WinXP Clients. A Win2000 Server handles DNS and WINS.

The problem is that clients are randomly dropping off the network and users
have to shut down and log back on to get access. As can be imagined there
is a bit of an uproar about the inconvenience and in particular the lost
productivity multiplied by 70 odd users.

I can not find an answer and would appreciate any suggestions. I know there
is facility to disconnect inactive users but this is disabled at this point.
If anyone has any articles on the importance of not leaving machines logged
on when leaving machines this would be appreciated as well, I need to submit
a report to management and want to make sure that all security doesn't go
out the window because of this problem. However, this does not help users
being dropped off whilst sitting at their machine.

Thank you

Regards, James
 
James,
We too have been having the same problem. Two things
that we are trying as of this morning. One is that we
turned off the hibernation that the system goes into when
it is idle, also the screen saver. Two we went to the
windows updates page and dowloaded the updates for windows
XP(this is an XP computer, the rest are 2000
professional). There is an update that has networking
included, sorry don't remember the number. By doing both
of these as of 8:10am today it is working. We will test
this out a little while longer then turn back on the
screen saver. Test it out then turn back on hibernation.
Basically track which one is kicking it off. Give it a
shot. If this helps great, or if it gives you anymore
ideas please post them. Thanks.

Ken
 
Maybe this has something to do with autodisconnect on the client machines?

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\parameters

John
 
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