Cannot conenct to mapped drives, can connect WWW 1

[jer18]

Hi,

I am not sure how to go about this problem on one XP computer.

It along with a few others have been set up with a static IP on a domain. Only this one will occasionally drop some sort of trust with the domain and be unable to reestablish connection to the shared network drives.

The only way I can resolve is to constantly change the Static IP. I do not receive any 'duplicate IPs on the network' and am able to access the internet while unable to access network shares. Is there something I could check to stop this from happening in the future.. (I would go DHCP but there has been an issue ever since we upgrading to SP2 on SBS2003 - separate issue in itself)

Thanks.

 

[linney]

Have a look at some of the links coming from this thread.

Mapped drives failing
thread779-1394389

 

[jer18]

Thanks linney -

I followed through those links and printer a few pages of notes, and each time the issue came back I attempted a new technique to try to resolve the issue. First I made the registry changes, then Auto-enrollment changes, Gpedit settings, etc. The issue still continues and I need to manually change the static IP to allow connection each time the problem returns again. Any ideas?

 

[linney]

What is going on in the Event Viewer?

What is the exact error message that you are seeing?

Is there any pattern or timing connection to the dropping of the Network connection, or is it totally sporadic?

What about removing both machine and Users from the Domain on the Server and on the local machine?

 

[goombawaho]

Regardless to the particular resolution of this problem, I would seriously look at getting rid of all static IPs on your network except for printers, servers, routers. It's just not a good idea from a network management perspective.

 

[hairlessupportmonkey]

have you removed the machine from the domain and re-added it?

that should resolve trust issue between a WS and the DC

 

[jer18]

I think the issue has cleared after re-joining the PC. It's been a couple weeks and the user reported no issues. Thanks all.

@goombawaho I definitively want to get rid of the need of Static IPs on the workstations - I should give it a shot again and will open a new thread if it persists.