XP keeps losing network connections

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Tony

Hi,

I've been briwsung the archives and seen similar stories, but not
actually found the magic article offering a solution :(

I have a win98 network talking to a Win2k Server box.
One of the 98 machines has a printer shared by all the others.
Everything is fine.
Two of the 98 machines have recently been replaced with XP SP1
machines, and are no end of trouble.

They will lose their connection to the 98 shared printer quite
frequently, though if I keep a dos app open (which connects to the
same printer via LPT1) then the connection stays much longer, though
still eventually disappears.

Outlook keeps it's data files on a network share, which gets lost
quite frequently, and indeed all the network shares disappear.

This can usually be resolved by logging off and on again, but
sometimes the machines have to be rebooted completely before the
connections come back.

This is happening at least 1/2 a dozen times a day and is very
irritating.
I cannot upgrade the rest of the 98 machines until this is resolved.

Does anyone out there have a solution I can try?

thanks in advance,


Tony
 
Dave said:
Tony I have 3 location with same problems if you find an
answer please I beg of you send it along. I think it is a
bug in the systems
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Don't worry mate, if I do find an answer, I report the results.
There seems to be a lot of people asking this question and no answers
forthcoming.
I cannot believe that Microsoft have not addressed this yet (I can't
even find it in the KB), since there are a lot of Win2k servers out
there....

cheers,

Tony
 
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