XP Home cause of my network issues?

[unnamedplayer]

Hi all,

I am having a problem here with connections to Network resources. I am on a workgroup right now and have two shared drives mapped as well as a shared printer mapped.

I am on a laptop with Win XP Home and after logging into my computer I have sporadic outages where it will say that my network drives are disconnected or that I can't access the printer (it will say access is denied). When I try to open up the mapped network drive, I am prompted for my username and pw. After entering that, I am reconnected again and can use the shared resources again.

I am wondering if this is because I am on XP Home? I have a 2000 Pro client that does not have this problem. I would like it so I don't have to constantly reenter my username and pw.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

 

[Lemon law]

I had a similar problem---turned out to be a bad NIC--which could mean your problem has nothing to do with the OS---but its always bad generalising on a
N of one----so question---do you have the courage of your convictions to gamble $100 or so to see if upgrading the OS will fix it?--or maybe not fix it.

If I were you, I would far rather gamble on a fix like setting up a static client address---see microsoft knowledgebase article kb309642---which may or may not work for you. But costs zero dollars to try. But when a NIC--be it on motherboard or add on-- loses internet conectivity even momentarily---all kinds of settings can be lost if it resets to any any new settings. In my case, KB309642 saved my bacon by forcing the reset to the previous setting.---although--20-20 hindsight---replacing the $15.00 NIC would have done as well.

The other thing you might try is getting better NIC drivers.----or at least the NIC is the first tree I would bark up. But on a N of 1, its difficult to say where your problem is.

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: unnamedplayer
Hi all,

I am having a problem here with connections to Network resources. I am on a workgroup right now and have two shared drives mapped as well as a shared printer mapped.

I am on a laptop with Win XP Home and after logging into my computer I have sporadic outages where it will say that my network drives are disconnected or that I can't access the printer (it will say access is denied). When I try to open up the mapped network drive, I am prompted for my username and pw. After entering that, I am reconnected again and can use the shared resources again.

I am wondering if this is because I am on XP Home? I have a 2000 Pro client that does not have this problem. I would like it so I don't have to constantly reenter my username and pw.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

NIC drivers have nothing to do with this. Home does not support cached credentials, that is why you must re-enter them constantly. You'd need pro to avoid this.

Bill

 

[cleverhandle]

Originally posted by: bsobel
NIC drivers have nothing to do with this. Home does not support cached credentials, that is why you must re-enter them constantly. You'd need pro to avoid this.

Though it would still work on Home if all the username/password's were identical on every machine, correct?

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: cleverhandle

Originally posted by: bsobel
NIC drivers have nothing to do with this. Home does not support cached credentials, that is why you must re-enter them constantly. You'd need pro to avoid this.

Though it would still work on Home if all the username/password's were identical on every machine, correct?

Correct, but based on the symptoms I presumed that wasnt the configuration. I guess the OP needs to add more flavor.