red cross on mapped drives on one LAN PC

[=?iso-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9?= Lehmann]

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

 

[Jeffrey Walton]

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