Windows7 on Windows2000 Domain - losing connection.

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Is anyone else having this problem and/or know of a fix.

We've about 4 Win7 machines attached to a Windows2000 domain.

EVERY morning, we're having to restart the Windows7 machines to reconnect to the mapped drives and SQL Server.

It's becoming quite annoying.

Plans are afoot to migrate to a Windows2008 Server but that's a good few weeks off.

If we go to the command prompt, we can still Ping the server (the IP and the server name), but all mapped drives are shown with a big cross through them and the SQL Server just says that it's lost connection.

Anyone know of a solution/fix or what the problem is?
 
What is the actual problem? Is it:

Turn on machine > log in > no network drives > restart > log in > network drives appear? Or do they just drop randomly and require a restart? Also, are they 64 bit Windows 7?
 
ALL are 32bit Windows 7.

It's literally a case of (example):

Turn computer on,
Log in,
Work on Computer most of day.
Take lunch/meeting/go home
Come back to machine and drives are disconnected.

Only way to reconnect is to restart the machine.

So it's literally random drops.
 
power management on the NIC?
checked the network? assuming you have but it's worth looking at the switch they're cabled through or even the auto-negotiate settings.
 
Disable the power management in windows, see if the problem persists. That would be my main suspect firstly. If not that, then I would start checking another NIC if possible in the machine, or changing the network cable over.
 
Cheers, will disable the power management now and see how it goes.

Ironically, come in to work today and it's not done it on mine but has on one of the girls.

Grrrr.
 
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