Net connect lost with 98 clients w/2003 server

[bwysocki]

We recently upgraded from an old NT4 server to a new Win 2003 server. On our workstations we have several logical drives mapped to folders on the server.

With a Win 2000 workstation we have no problems. But on our PC's running 98SE after a certain amount of time with no network usage, the network connection is lost. As far as I know, the only way to get it to reconnect to the server is to reboot the 98 box.

Needless to say this is a real pain. Is there a setting, or a patch for either 2003 or 98SE that fixes this problem?

Thanks,
Bob

 

[rvnguy]

bwysocki,

Have not set Win98(SE) for a while. In W2K3, there is a facility for setting connection timeouts. As you are not having Win2K problems this may or may not help. It may not be server side and maybe on the client side.

Setting Timeouts

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pr...IIS/31a2f39c-4d59-4cba-905c-60e7af657e49.mspx

rvnguy
"I know everything..I just can't remember it all

 

[bwysocki]

I'm not sure if that article is what I'm looking for either. It would seem to me that I am dealing with some sort of timeout issue as the connection will stay alive for a period of time. (How long I'm not sure)

Does anyone else use 98 boxes on their 2003 network?

 

[Teknoratti]

How about looking to DHCP. When they lose connection to the folders, did you try to refresh the IP address for the 98SE boxes. Sometimes in our environment the IP's get stale and we lose connections to our Net shares. A quick /renew and they're fine.

 

[xmsre]

Sounds like autodisconnect. Set if to ffffffff

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;297684