Possible breaks on Ethernet Network

[stompin]

Hopefully this is the correct forum... I have a strange issue here in that every now and then most of my workstations gain a big fat RED X on their mapped network connections in file manager suggesting the mapped drive is unavailable. When users click on the mapped drive they can access the drive and the X disappears. I am also getting some reports that the network seems to disappear very briefly and then connection is restored - whats happening and why?? I can't find a way of checking or monitoring this to see if a break on the E0 network is actually happening. Advice gratefully received...

regards

 

[franklin97355]

There is monitoring software available depending on what you want to pay and how thourough you need to be. You don't say what OS you are using but I know some of them will disconnect an unused network connection after a time and reconnect it when you try to access it again. Might try looking into that.

 

[stompin]

Cheer's franklin... I'm using W2K Pro OS. Can you point me to any freeware / shareware tools I can check out and if they are any good I don't mind buying them. Don't understand why a drive will be temp disconnected?

 

[bcastner]

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=297684

http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...port/kb/articles/q138/3/65.asp&NoWebContent=1