samba - Oct 2007 - Mapped network drive randomly disconnects

Hello,

we have a samba 3.0.10 running as a PDC for a network of 50 Windows 
2000/XP clients. The clients sometimes experience a problem, that their 
home folder (shared as \\server\home\) which is mapped to drive Z: 
randomly disconnects in Windows. This is usually related to the network 
load on the workstation - for example if the user is working in Outlook, 
which has its database stored on this network share, the probability of 
the drive getting disconnected is much higher than when the client is 
idle. It is possible to reconnect the network share immediately after 
disconnecting, but it causes various problems to the programs running 
from network.

Have any one experienced similar problem?

Thank you for the answer

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Best regards,

Martin Su?il

Martin Susil, on 10/1/2007 7:00 AM, said the following:
> for example if the user is working in Outlook, 
> which has its database stored on this network share,
Lots of problems - as admitted and documented by Microsoft - with stoing 
.pst files on network shares.

Short answer: don't do it unless you enjoy dealing with weird problems 
and corrupted .pst files.

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Best regards,

Charles