Mapped network drives sporadically dissapear XP Proff SP1

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"disappear from explorer and my computer while still being maintained in the
history" please specify this.
You said other mapped drives don't disappear, this happens only to certain
drives; please verify when this issue occurs:
- Do you face this problem only on drives mapped via DFS link?
- Do they disappear only within the GUI? Are they still enumerated in 'net
use' when disappeared from the GUI?
- Can you access the 'disappeared' drives via GUI / CMD?
- Is there an entry in object manager for the drives (Winobj v2.15 from
sysinternals.com shows this)?

Cheers,
Stefan



"Grouchy9876" wrote:

> I've had a few cases of XP users (proff/SP1) who randomly drop a network
> drive to our Active Directory DFS. Their connections aren't dropping and
> other drives to the DFS are maintained but one will dissapear from explorer
> and my computer while still being maintained in the history. So if you try to
> remap the system shows it as still being connected. I can easily get around
> this by killing the drive with NET USE in a COMMAND session and allowing it
> to remap at login, but I cant see why this would randomly happen in the first
> place, especially to only 1 drive out of many.
> Any ideas would be appreciated.
>
> Grouchy