Network Drives

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When starting an xp machine on my network, some of the xp machines have red x's on the mapped network drives. if I double click on the drives they open, but if I don't, they will remain disconnected until I go into my computer and open the drives up.....What could be the cause of this and what is the fix?
 
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Why some mapped network drives show a red ax

SYMPTOMS: You find that the network drive mapping may be disconnected after
15 minutes of inactivity and Windows Explorer may display a red "X" on the
icon of the mapped drive. However, if you double-click it reconnects
quickly.

RESOLUTION: by default, idle connections will be dropped after 15 minutes.
To modify idle time, at a command prompt using net config server
/autodisconnect: minutes. For example, to set the Autodisconnect value to
30 minutes, you would run the following command line: net config server
/autodisconnect:30. If you would like to turn Autodisconnect off, do net
config server /autodisconnect:-1.


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Spice One said:
When starting an xp machine on my network, some of the xp machines have
Click to expand...
red x's on the mapped network drives. if I double click on the drives they
open, but if I don't, they will remain disconnected until I go into my
computer and open the drives up.....What could be the cause of this and what
is the fix?
 
It's not a problem of being idle, it doesn't reconnect at login. the drives have the red x's through them....
 
I'm having exactly the same problem.

My best theoryis that it is a timeout problem. I'm guessing that it
takes a while for the connection to be established; and if the connection
isn't made in the perscribed time, XP gives up and flags a disconnect.

Does any one know of a timeout that I can adjust or some other
work-around?


Spice One said:
When starting an xp machine on my network, some of the xp machines have
Click to expand...
red x's on the mapped network drives. if I double click on the drives they
open, but if I don't, they will remain disconnected until I go into my
computer and open the drives up.....What could be the cause of this and what
is the fix?
 
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