Red X's on network drives

[L.P.]

All of my network drives appear with red x's next to them
after I installed Norton Anti-virus software, however I
don't believe it to be the software because after
uninstalling the software the problem re-occurs. When I
go to save to one of the drives I receive the following
windows error message: An error occurred while
reconnecting M: to \\Servername\filename Microsoft
Windows Network: The local device name is already in
use. This connection has not been restored. Anyone ideas
on resolving this issue is appreciated.

 

[Dave Patrick]

Separate issues;
1.) The default timeout is 15 minutes. From a command prompt on the server
side
net config server /autodisconnect:-1
for no disconnect.

Setting this from the command line may turn off auto tuning for the server
service. So a better solution is to navigate to
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters

and set the Reg_DWord hex value of
"autodisconnect"=ffffffff

If "autodisconnect" doesn't exist, Add it.
(note; ffffffff = aprox. 8171 years)


2.) http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q271183