Windows7 on Windows2000 Domain - losing connection.

[~J~]

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?

 

[~J~]

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.

 

[~J~]

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.