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[theruckman]

I installed a 321 @ a very small business (4 PC's) and they have ONE folder on the NAS called "Company Share" -it is randomly losing the network connection, remap it with easy_search and all is fine in a few clicks BUT what a pain that they are doing this all of a sudden. This folder and 2 others are set as "ALL", R/W, MAP ARCHIVE and OPS enabled....the only user I have setup on it is ME for admin stuff. This is driving me (and THEM) crazy. What is the deal? AND BTW, I have the same exact NAS in my house, never had an issue with this.

NOW: all the PC's are running Norton 360 (latest version)...I am highly suspecting the firewall on this issue. Any tips on that? OR what about the NAS timing out?

Please any suggestions are welcomed!

Scott

[dave_the_nerd]

Mine'll drop the connection if the drives hibernate. (Or, rather, the computer tells me it's not responding because it takes slightly less time for the connection to time out than it takes the DNS to spin its drives up.)

Either dealing with the delay or setting the drives to never hibernate solves the problem.

[JavaLawyer]

Are you running Windows 7 and are your mapped shortcuts stored on your desktop?

Windows 7 has a limitation of four active shortcuts (on the desktop) for mapped network drives. If Windows detects that one of the network resources is unavailable (e.g. from hibernation), then all of the networked shortcuts are deleted. This was driving me a bit crazy until I discovered the root cause.

You can map any number of network drives, but you must limit the number of networked-shortcuts to four or less, then this issue should stop recurring (even when a drive hibernates).