Open shares appear to randomly disconnect...?

[NickWalton]

Hi,
I've got a Windows 2003 file server, which is currently also running a VMWare for a phone server, among a few other things. The machine hosts a number of movie files, which are accessed by old Xbox consoles running media center. Every now and then however, they wil randomly stop playing, and I can see in computer management the files are no longer being accessed. I can only think of this being the server at fault as I've had multiple Xbox's stop playing at the same time.

It doesn't happen very often and I can't think of what the problem is... any ideas?

 

[Rockstar101]

When you noticed the drives had been disconnected did you happen to notice whether the correct ID was logged into the server? Perhaps someone logged out and back in with a different ID at some point for some reason? This would cause the drive to loose their mappings if the server is now all of a sudden under a different user profile.

Just taking a stab in the dark at it. Good luck!