Another XP networking problem.

[iamtrout]

So I'm trying to transfer a 1GB folder from my laptop to my desktop over MSHOME. After about a minute of transferring I get ""Cannot Copy xxx: The specified network name is no longer available."

Why is it no longer available? My laptop is still on. It's not going into standby or anything. I don't have any transfer quotas that I'm aware of. I'm logged into my lappy from my desktop as the admin. The same happens when I try to copy the folder, while on the laptop, from the lappy to the desktop, only I get a "target folder is no longer available" or something along those lines.

Drat.

 

[JeffMD]

for some reason one of you has droped its net connection momentarily.

 

[ktwebb]

Does it drop out at about the same point every time. In other words, is it a time or amount of data problem. If not then I'd have to agree with Jeff. Could just be a dropped connection to the server.

 

[iamtrout]

It seems to drop out at around the same time (within one minute). How can the connection be dropped? The "server" is my laptop sitting five feet away from my desktop...