red cross on mapped drives on one LAN PC

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Hello all,

does anybody have a hinto to overcome this:

Some PCs (WindowsNT, Windows2000) are attached to a peer-to-peer LAN. No
server.
On one LAN PC (W2000) "PC-1", I observe in Windows Explorer the "red
cross" on every mapped drive, each on a different target PC (no matter
being W2K or WNT on the target), right from the moment of mapping.
Mappings are set as persistent.
In fact, I may access the drives, but after some time local Windows
explorer crashes sometimes.

If I am logged on using the same user name and password on a different
W2000 PC ("PC-2") and map the same drives, I see no red cross,
everything's fine.

So I suppose this is a local problem of PC-1.
What may I have to check?
It appears as if this behaviour started only recently, after installing
a hot fix. Did anybody observe similar problems?


Regards

André Lehmann
 
Hi Andre,

That usually means the pipe has been closed since it is idle. Opening should
reopen the pipe.

You can change the default timeout, but I don't recall the registry key.

Its basically is benign.

Jeff
 
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