Small Office Network Connection Times Out

plumberdharris · **Small Office Network Connection Times Out -** 06-06-2012, 16:41 | posts: 1

I am on a small office network, we have about 5 servers with drives mapped to about 10 users. The Internet works fine all the time on my computer. but every day I come in to the office I am disconnected to the mapped network drives. it seems to time out at around 10 hours. (at least daily - less than 24). I understand networking well but not expert. I cannot figure why the server/servers are restricting access like that. My computer is a recent (but not the most) addition to the network and seems to be the only one with this issue.

IPlayNaked · 06-12-2012, 18:59 | posts: 6,559

Are you sure it's disconnected, and not just showing the X?

Also, look up "Default timeout period" for network drives. I believe it's a registry setting.

grunger · 06-12-2012, 19:20 | posts: 1,830 | Location: London

Does double clicking the mapped drive 'reconnect' it?

When it doesn't work - can you ping the server at that point?