[dhickman]

We have this problem with ALL Dell laptops using WinXP SP2. For a tempoary fix, I added software to the Startup group that simple accesses one of the network drives every 15 minutes. After that, no one with these PCs is knocked off the network.

Dwayne

[-i-Ver$ioN]

This might be caused by Media Sense.Try Disabling Media Sense.

[mmurshed]

Dear All,

I'm facing this problem since I install XP in my network long time.
When I faced this first time microsoft said wait for SP2,

But SP2 not solving the problem.

this problem dosen't exist with 2000 Pro.

Today I read this article (890413) from MS but the solution is not working.

They said try to delete the drive and restore it again

When this proble happen I shoud restart the machine.

Some one told me try rejoin the domain again,

But no of these solutions work

I'm suprise why MS could'nt solve this a big issue.

This problem nothing to do with HW becuase I faced with diffrent machine (HP, Sony, assembled, ...etc)

Problem with windows XP

Munir

[F250Rob]

I had the same problems (Dropped drives, workstations disconnecting, ect.) and could not find a solution anywhere. But I finally did find an answer. Try one of the following or both:

[To turn Autodisconnect off] Type > net config server /autodisconnect:-1
[Try this on the server and ws]

or

Install or repair the DHCP, DNS and WINS on the server. Setting up theses services "correctly" Completely! solved the problem. I did them all at once so I am not sure which one was the trick but I suspect WINS was the key.

I hope this helps, I've been pulling my hair out for some time over this. Alas, no longer!!