Hi, One of my friends came to me with a problem I've heard of before but haven't found an answer yet. Her situation is a Windows network with a mixture of Win XP and Win 98 computers. There are 4 98 machines of which 2 are giving her, and now me, fits. Seems these 2 loose their drive mappings after about 5 - 10 minutes of idle time. They work fine as long as the user is actively doing something. We have replaced the network cables, network cards, even the network switch. No joy. we have routed the cable from the computer to another drop to bypass the wire in the wall. No joy. I setup a continuous ping. The computer lost it's drive mappings right on schedule even though the ping never failed. Last night I setup a tiny file copy to the server that runs continuously. I'll find out this morning if it made a difference. I suspect it's a timeout issue in Win 98 and a registery hack will fix it. Has anyone seen this before? How did you fix it? What search phrase would bring up the answer? Thanks Bob -- Assured Computing, Inc. When you need to be sure. http://www.assuredcomp.com/ P.O. Box 40814 Eugene, OR 97404 Voice - 541-868-0331 FAX - 541-463-1627
Bob Crandell wrote:>One of my friends came to me with a problem I've heard of before but haven't >found an answer yet. > >Her situation is a Windows network with a mixture of Win XP and Win 98 >computers. There are 4 98 machines of which 2 are giving her, and now me, >fits. Seems these 2 loose their drive mappings after about 5 - 10 minutes of >idle time. They work fine as long as the user is actively doing something.I recall something vaguely similar some time ago, it was due to the computer going into sleep mode (or something similar) which caused all network connections to drop. Could be worth checking. Simon -- Simon Hobson, Technology Specialist Colony Gift Corporation Limited Lindal in Furness, Ulverston, Cumbria, LA12 0LD Tel 01229 461100, Fax 01229 461101 Registered in England No. 1499611 Regd. Office : 100 New Bridge Street, London, EC4V 6JA.
Simon Hobson (shobson-lists@colony.com) wrote:> > Bob Crandell wrote: > > >One of my friends came to me with a problem I've heard of before but haven't > >found an answer yet. > > > >Her situation is a Windows network with a mixture of Win XP and Win 98 > >computers. There are 4 98 machines of which 2 are giving her, and now me, > >fits. Seems these 2 loose their drive mappings after about 5 - 10 minutes of > >idle time. They work fine as long as the user is actively doing something. > > I recall something vaguely similar some time ago, it was due to the > computer going into sleep mode (or something similar) which caused > all network connections to drop. Could be worth checking. > > Simon > >That was one of the first things I checked. Power save and screen savers are the first to go when I troubleshoot a Windoze issue. Thanks -- Assured Computing, Inc. When you need to be sure. http://www.assuredcomp.com/ P.O. Box 40814 Eugene, OR 97404 Voice - 541-868-0331 FAX - 541-463-1627
This may have something to do with it, but as the article states Win9x timeouts can't be changed, and it doesn't explain why 2 of your 4 systems are OK - just a thought. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;297684 Regards, Luke.> Simon > >That was one of the first things I checked. Power save and screen savers are the first to go when I troubleshoot a Windoze issue. Thanks ______________________________________________________________________ Any views or opinions expressed in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of ENDEMOL UK plc unless specifically stated. This email and the information it contains are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify us immediately and delete the copy you have received from your system. You should not copy it for any purpose, re-transmit it, use it or disclose its contents to any other person. If you suspect the message may have been intercepted or amended please call the sender.
I know you said you already checked power saving features, but was that in just Windows? Be sure to check in the CMOS settings for any power saving features as well. I had this happen in Win2k and it ended up being that the problematic computers had S3 set as the default in their APM settings when it should have been S1. This would be a probable cause if your motherboards have onboard NICs. Do you use DNS or WINS for name resolution? I did have some connection problems that were solved by using static IPs and statically defined entries in the zone file for the domain. Since the ping works but drive mappings are lost, it may indeed be a samba issue. Do you have the SO_KEEPALIVE setting in the string value for the socket options in your smb.conf file? "Bob Crandell" <bob@assuredcomp.com> wrote in message news:20040317.LCm.94514300@ocicat... That was one of the first things I checked. Power save and screen savers are the first to go when I troubleshoot a Windoze issue. Thanks -- Assured Computing, Inc. When you need to be sure. http://www.assuredcomp.com/ P.O. Box 40814 Eugene, OR 97404 Voice - 541-868-0331 FAX - 541-463-1627 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
This is great. You've made her look like a hero. Maybe I'll get a pan of applecrisp out of this. Want me to email you some? Thanks Bob VR-Bug Support (bugtraq@victoriareal.com) wrote:> > > > This may have something to do with it, but as the article states Win9x timeouts can't be > changed, and it doesn't explain why 2 of your 4 systems are OK - just a thought. > > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;297684 > > Regards, > > Luke. > > > Simon > > > > > That was one of the first things I checked. Power save and screen savers are > the first to go when I troubleshoot a Windoze issue. > > Thanks > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Any views or opinions expressed in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not > necessarily represent those of ENDEMOL UK plc unless specifically stated. > This email and the information it contains are confidential and intended solely for the > use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. If you have received this > email in error please notify us immediately and delete the copy you have received from > your system. > You should not copy it for any purpose, re-transmit it, use it or disclose its contents > to any other person. If you suspect the message may have been intercepted or amended > please call the sender. > >-- Assured Computing, Inc. When you need to be sure. http://www.assuredcomp.com/ P.O. Box 40814 Eugene, OR 97404 Voice - 541-868-0331 FAX - 541-463-1627