Mapped Network Drives are Disconnected

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Bernster

Ever since we installed SP2 on 6 networked Win XP Pro computers our
mapped drives on reboot show up as being disconnected. I tried
disconnecting and reconnecting all of the mapped drives and that did
not work. Any thoughts on how to get around this problem as it is
messing up several of our network programs.

Bernster
 
Ever since we installed SP2 on 6 networked Win XP Pro computers our
mapped drives on reboot show up as being disconnected. I tried
disconnecting and reconnecting all of the mapped drives and that did
not work. Any thoughts on how to get around this problem as it is
messing up several of our network programs.
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Bernster,

are there any other computers?

What exactly happens with the several network programs?

Hans-Georg
 
Hans-Georg Michna said:
Bernster,

are there any other computers?

What exactly happens with the several network programs?

Hans-Georg
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have you rechecked your firewall settings ...SP2 re-enables internal
firewall ...check the exceptions..
 
Windows XP firewall is turned off. Zonealarm is on. There is a file server
and 5 computers networked together using IPX/SPX protocol. Everything
worked fine until we installed SP2 on all of the computers. Now if we
reboot server and other computers, in My Computer, the mapped network drives
to the file server are shown as disconnected network drives. If you click
on a disconnected network drive, it will reconnect.

Bernster
 
I forgot to mention that this problem causes certain network programs to act
erratically because they can't find files on the server.

Bernster
 
this problem causes certain network programs to act
erratically because they can't find files on the server.
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Bernster,

could you describe in a little more detail what exactly happens?
Do you get an error message that a file cannot be found? If so,
what is the exact text of the error message?

Hans-Georg
 
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