Networking

[ddensmor]

Ok All you networking people heres one driving me nuts, I have a PDC with 4 XP Pro computers. all computer login to the PDC, one of the pc's has 3 cd-roms I have shared all of cd's. In the morning after turning on all the computers we can access all shared resources including the shared cd-rom, after some idle time the connections is dropped to the cd-roms and the only way to get it back is to reboot and sign back on to the PDC,
I have add each user to the cd-rom sharing machine
login scripts work every time we reboot
We are using tcp/ip only
I never drop the server connections

I believe it has something to due with Peer to Peer in a domain enviroment because this also happens to sharing printers. Any ideas

[Spider]

XP drops network connections by default, it's a really dumb default setting.
In the registry
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Lanmanserve r\parameters
look for
autodisconnect
you can set the value in minutes, the range is -1 to 65535 (minutes)
the usual default is 15 minutes
to disable it completely set it to -1