Maped shares lost from xp Clients

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Jeff Cox

We are running win2K server but do not authenticate with
the domain controller to this server. It is stand
alone ,and we have maped drives and network shares. With
Win2000 Pro Cleints there have been no problems. Since
swtiching to XP clients consistantly XP Clients loose the
maped drive short cuts several times a day, typically
after opening a file from the server. After this happens
you can still go to the short cut, but it looks like only
recent folders and documents are there, like a cache of
some sort, but you are no longer connected to the server.

This probelms seems to be even worse when opening XP
Office Excell documents from the server. Any ideas?

-Jeff Cox
 
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We are running win2K server but do not authenticate with
the domain controller to this server. It is stand
alone ,and we have maped drives and network shares. With
Win2000 Pro Cleints there have been no problems. Since
swtiching to XP clients consistantly XP Clients loose the
maped drive short cuts several times a day, typically
after opening a file from the server. After this happens
you can still go to the short cut, but it looks like only
recent folders and documents are there, like a cache of
some sort, but you are no longer connected to the server.

This probelms seems to be even worse when opening XP
Office Excell documents from the server. Any ideas?

-Jeff Cox
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Jeff,

Not really sure that I am following you 100%. This is
what I am getting from your post. Please correct where I
might be incorrect:

You have a WIN2000 AD Environment. There is at least one
WIN2000 DC. There is just one Site? You have a WIN2000
File Server ( or maybe stated more technically correct
you have a WIN2000 Member Server that, among other
things, acts as a File Server ). There are mapped
network drives, of which some point to shares on this
WIN2000 File Server. How do the clients get these mapped
network drives? Maybe via a logon script? If so, is it
a "logon.bat", a "logon.cmd" or a "logon.vbs" file? and
how is it delivered - via the user accout profile or via
Group Policy?

How am I doing so far?

Now, this problem affects ONLY your WINXP Pro systems,
correct? Have you done this: for one of the users that
has a WINXP Pro System have him/her logon to a WIN2000
System? Do the Mapped Network Drives all show up? And
stay?

Windows XP Professional has a "Quick Logon" that is, by
default, enabled. Take a look at disabling
that "feature" and see if this resolves the issue.

My concern is that you have stated that they "loose the
mapped drive short cuts several times a day". What do
you mean by shortcuts? I am thinking that you have
opened up My Computer and dragged each Mapped Network
Drive to the user's desktop and created a shortcut - or
possibly opened up My Computer, double-clicked on the
mapped network drive icon and created a shortcut to one
or several of the folders on the desktop. And when do
they disappear? Are the users logging off to go to
break, log back on when they come back and then the
problems start?

Can you give some more details as to what is happening?
Are there any events in your logs? They are not losing
network connectivity, correct? Just the shortcuts. And
all computers are a paort of the AD Domain, correct? All
computers are pointing to your internal DNS Server(s) in
their TCP/IP configuration settings, correct?

HTH,

Cary
 
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