re: keeping mapped drives connected, how?
Saturday, November 10, 2007 at 1:51 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by francis huxley
(2 messages posted)
bit off topic, but have a win2000 netwrked to a vista at home. Set up file sharing...went
to watch a video file
, file was recognized, but VLC,REAL, &WinMedPlyr
couldn't play the file, probelm with streaming/codec.
Do I need to map a drive to be able to watch videos
resident on the vista machine, on the win2000 machine???
On Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 11:20 pm, Mike wrote:
>think i solved my own issue...see below...
>Resolution
>
>Refer to Microsoft article 138365 – How Autodisconnect Works in Windows NT and Windows
>2000.
>
>Change the default time-out period on the shared network computer. To do this, use
>one of the following methods.
>
>Registry Editor
>
>Caution! This fix requires you to edit the registry. Using Registry Editor incorrectly
>can cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system.
>Citrix cannot guarantee that problems resulting from the incorrect use of Registry
>Editor can be solved. Use Registry Editor at your own risk. Be sure to back up the
>registry before you edit it.
>
>Use Registry Editor to increase the default time-out period. To do this, follow
these
>steps and then quit Registry Editor:
>
>Choose Start > Run, type regedit (Windows 2000 or Windows Server 2003) or type regedt32
>(Windows NT 4.0), and click OK.
>Locate and click the following key in the registry:
>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\lanmanserver\parameters
>In the right pane, click the autodisconnect value, and from the Edit menu, click
>Modify.
>If the autodisconnect value does not exist, follow these steps:
>From the Edit menu, point to New and click REG_DWORD.
>Type autodisconnect and press ENTER.
>Click Hexadecimal.
>In the Value data box, type ffffffff (8 letter F’s) and click OK.
>Note: You cannot use this method to turn off the autodisconnect feature of the Server
>service. You can only use this method to change the default time-out period for
the
>autodisconnect feature.
>
>Command Line
>
>Note: If you use this method, you may turn off the autotuning feature for the Server
>service.
>
>To change the default time-out period for the autodisconnect feature of the Server
>service, open a command prompt, type the following line, and press ENTER:
>
>net config server /autodisconnect:
>
>Where number is the number of minutes that you want the server to wait before it
>disconnects a mapped network drive. The maximum value for this command is 65,535.
>
>Note: If you set the autodisconnect value to 0 (zero), the autodisconnect feature
>is not turned off, and the Server service disconnects mapped network drives after
>only a few seconds of idle time.
>
>To turn off the autodisconnect feature, open a command prompt, type the following
>line, and press ENTER:
>
>net config server /autodisconnect:-1
>
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