windows98 clients can't connect to remote servers

[drphat]

I have a bat file that maps a series of drives (both on the local subnet and accross a router) up until a few days ago this all worked great -- now my users when they log on do not get the remote drives, but if they log off then back on it maps all the drives fine.

also, it seems that periodically they get disconnected from those drives and have to redo the whole process (reboot, logon, logoff, logon)

i have checked all my win2k servers and the event logs are clear of anything related to logons or security or netbios/netbt. i have rebooted my routers and checked their logs. my next option is to just put a persistant route on all the win9x machines to the other network, but thats not fixing the root of the problem.

thnx TONS for any help

 

[agrappe]

Win2k autodisconnects sessions after a set time. Change it by typing at a command prompt:

net config server /autodisconnect:30

The valid value range is -1 to 65535 minutes at the command line. To disable Autodisconnect set it to -1.


The knowledgebase doc it here

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q138365&ID=KB;EN-US;Q138365

 

[drphat]

right, for win2k pro and server -- not win9x

these are win9x boxes, thnx though

to add to my info: i do have a default gateway setup and the routing tables are straight, like i said -- it has worked fine for years

 

[agrappe]

DOH!

The remote drives part didn't register the first time I read it.

 

[drphat]

no problem, anyone else have any ideas?

could it be a winsock issue? it seems to be a netbios/wins related thing -- just can't pinpoint it...