I work on a Win2000 professional system that is linked to a network, giving me access to a number of drives.
I have been working here for three and a half months, and everything has been fine up till last week. What has been happening is that for some inexplicable reason, I keep on losing the ability to log onto the networked drives... My security clearance gets wiped out, and I cannot connect to anything... Then my password is forgotten, and I am locked out... I can still access my C drive, but all the work that I do is on my network drives, which I cannot access.
Every time that this happens, I call one of the SA's and ask her to fix it up... Then she resets my password, and it all works fine... For a day or so, then the same problem rears its ugly head.... This has now happened five times in the last week...
Yesterday, I decided to start trying to determine if something is going on with my pc... So I defragged my pc... Thing is that my the total fragmentation in my FAT32 was 24% and the File fragmentation was 49%... So I defragged it, and the defrag did nothing... So I tried a few more times, and each time it told me that the defrag was complete, and each time it did nothing...
Could this have to do with my continuing difficulties? When I log on, my password is used to access the other drives. If FAT32 is so fragmented, could my password file then become corrupt? Then if it did, since it would try that same corrupted password 5 times or so to get onto all the drives, then could that be what keeps on locking me out? Since too many attempts can get you logged out, maybe with the one failed attempt, it will automatically get more attempts logged, since it tries to access multiple drives...
Can anyone help me? Does anyone have an idea as to what may be causing these difficulties? I would be really greatful for any comments/replies, whether they be on how to fix the problem, or a confirmation of what the actual problem may be....
I have been working here for three and a half months, and everything has been fine up till last week. What has been happening is that for some inexplicable reason, I keep on losing the ability to log onto the networked drives... My security clearance gets wiped out, and I cannot connect to anything... Then my password is forgotten, and I am locked out... I can still access my C drive, but all the work that I do is on my network drives, which I cannot access.
Every time that this happens, I call one of the SA's and ask her to fix it up... Then she resets my password, and it all works fine... For a day or so, then the same problem rears its ugly head.... This has now happened five times in the last week...
Yesterday, I decided to start trying to determine if something is going on with my pc... So I defragged my pc... Thing is that my the total fragmentation in my FAT32 was 24% and the File fragmentation was 49%... So I defragged it, and the defrag did nothing... So I tried a few more times, and each time it told me that the defrag was complete, and each time it did nothing...
Could this have to do with my continuing difficulties? When I log on, my password is used to access the other drives. If FAT32 is so fragmented, could my password file then become corrupt? Then if it did, since it would try that same corrupted password 5 times or so to get onto all the drives, then could that be what keeps on locking me out? Since too many attempts can get you logged out, maybe with the one failed attempt, it will automatically get more attempts logged, since it tries to access multiple drives...
Can anyone help me? Does anyone have an idea as to what may be causing these difficulties? I would be really greatful for any comments/replies, whether they be on how to fix the problem, or a confirmation of what the actual problem may be....
