ShaunDon Posted October 7, 2005 Share Posted October 7, 2005 Good morning, fellas. I've been having trouble with my two mapped network drives on my new workstation. For some reason max can't access them when I first boot until I open them in Explorer, and after 12-24 hours (it varies I think) they become completely unavailable until a reboot. Really sucks during those weekend render jobs. We have half a dozen other workstations running XP Pro with the same network drives and none of them have this problem. Anyone have a suggestion? Thanks! Shaun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuekappel Posted October 7, 2005 Share Posted October 7, 2005 No idea whatsoever.... But if you want to avoid having to map network places, try out DirKey for fast, shortcut-based access to your network places. you just have to try it, sincerely...! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dann_stubbs Posted October 26, 2005 Share Posted October 26, 2005 Good morning, fellas. I've been having trouble with my two mapped network drives on my new workstation. For some reason max can't access them when I first boot until I open them in Explorer, and after 12-24 hours (it varies I think) they become completely unavailable until a reboot. Really sucks during those weekend render jobs. We have half a dozen other workstations running XP Pro with the same network drives and none of them have this problem. Anyone have a suggestion? Thanks! Shaun since you specify "new" my question is does your new workstation have XP SP2 on it? any new installs of SP2 i see the same thing. any XP installs that were upgraded to SP2 here still work fine. and previous XP versions will still mount mapped drives fine too. i'm not sure if this was some microsoft attempt at "security" by forcing reauthentications - but it is annoying by defeating the point of entering data for automatic login and i haven't found too much information on it - but i have repeated the behavior on multiple computers and have reproduced the "appearance" of it by taking a previous ok computer and updating to SP2. let me know if you find anything, not too much luck that i've found... dann Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShaunDon Posted October 26, 2005 Author Share Posted October 26, 2005 Hey Dann -- Thanks for the suggestion. I forgot to post back on here, I did some digging on IT forums and found that it's a problem between XP and Server 2003. Heh, go Microsoft. The problem was solved by setting my primary DNS to the address of our domain controller and the secondary DNS to our wireless router (which the internet comes in through). Haven't had any problems since! Thanks again! Shaun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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