Windows gurus, a little help?

[Sunner]

I have the displeasure of doubling as a kind of helpdesk guy at work, and one of the users has a rather strange problem.
We have an NT domain, the PDC is a box running NT4 Server with Sp6a.
Upon login, users get a bunch of drives mapped up by a KIX script.

Now, this works fine most of the time.
Unfortunately this users drives disappear quite frequently, and form she's been telling me, it's escalated during the last few weeks, from once or twice a day to many times per day.

I have no idea why this is happening, there doesn't appear to be any pattern at all, it can happen while she's working, while she's out of lunch, whenever.
The classical reboot hasn't helped.
I can see nothing suspicious in the event log, neither the client's nor the server's.

The client is a Win2K/Sp4 box, and the user is a local admin and domain user.

Any takers?

 

[ojai00]

Does it help if you run the KIXSTART.bat file that's in the Startup folder?

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: ojai00
Does it help if you run the KIXSTART.bat file that's in the Startup folder?

It's run directly from the NETLOGON share on the PDC, so there's nothing in the startup folder(well there is, but no KIX stuff).
I've given her a batch file that just runs the login script again, so that's a temp solution.

 

[Dogma420]

is she getting mapped to any 'dead' shares, sometimes this is something the OS doesn't like to handle.....strange problem, good luck! windows doesn't like dead shares...can screw with a system big time sometimes.

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: Dogma420
is she getting mapped to any 'dead' shares, sometimes this is something the OS doesn't like to handle.....strange problem, good luck! windows doesn't like dead shares...can screw with a system big time sometimes.

No.
The mapping itself works fine, and even after a reboot, this will happen, so there are no stale mappings involved.

 

[LiLithTecH]

Had this happen several times to different users and it was
the LOC each time (twice the switch, another the physical LOC)

Have you tried a different port?

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: LiLithTecH
Had this happen several times to different users and it was
the LOC each time (twice the switch, another the physical LOC)

Have you tried a different port?

Thanks for the tip, I'll try switching her to another port.
It's a Catalyst 2924XL by the way.