Topic: Mapped Drive Disconnects (Win7 and Win8)

[pjhealy]

Hi,

I've run into a perplexing problem and I can't seem to find the right Windows tweak or SME/Samba setting.  I have a small work group (<6 machines) connected to an SME server.  The main application they run is a MS Access-based POS terminal.  Since upgrading from an old version of CentOS with an older version of Samba to SME 8.1 they've reported that the mapped drive disconnects.  In non-DB applications the drive seems to auto-reconnect.  However the DB application is much less forgiving and it hangs requiring a reboot.

I can't be sure, but I believe this is happening when there is some period of inactivity on the workstation.  The DB application remains open and connected, but the end-user has left the workstation to help a customer and comes back to find it locked up.

Any thoughts on what I need to do either on the Windows workstation or SME Server to prevent the drive from disconnecting?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Stefano]

this is (obviously) a windoze issue

take a look here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297684
http://www.nextofwindows.com/how-to-fix-the-red-x-on-the-icon-of-mapped-network-drives-in-windows-7/
http://superuser.com/questions/453741/how-to-set-the-windows-7-network-timeout

and, generically, ask google "windows 7 map network drive timeout"

HTH