Network drives disconnecting randomly windows 7

If it happens at logon, consider creating a simple batch map drives script that runs at logon. To do this, create a text file on your desktop, e. You can then run gpedit. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site.

In reply to WilliamDz's post on October 29, It's been 24hrs and looks like adding the "autodisconnect" key with "ffffffff" value in the registry, did do the trick. Unfortunately while it did seemed to have worked, I'm back to windows disconnecting the drives. I'm sorry to say not even using the command to switch off autodisconnect worked. I have not tried PK's suggestion yet. I applied Win 7 SP1 on the system having the problem and am waiting to see if this resolves the issue.

I hate to make a change to my server that has been running without issue for the last 3 years. I will look at the forum you referenced and repost with results. Tuesday, May 31, PM. Hi Poly Admin, How's going now?

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This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread. Monday, May 30, AM. So far so good. The user has had no more issues since I installed SP1. But I still need to give it a little more time. Does anyone else have anything to add regarding this subject? Seems to me their should be a Microsoft update for this. Wednesday, June 1, PM. Thanks for the quick update.

Thursday, June 2, AM. Hi, Has anyone else got any other ideas. Friday, June 3, AM. Tuesday, June 7, AM. Hi, I'd like to add to this. However, just 2 days ago, I'm having the same random disconnect problems again. When this happens. Sometimes, unplugging and replugging the network or restarting the pc works. Any ideas? I've tried, the TCP chimney disable. Is there other threads on this that I can look into? Need help urgently Friday, August 12, AM. Tuesday, January 17, PM. I am going to pitch in as well, even though the thread is a bit stale I applied the registry settings suggested by PK, but they did not help.

Anyone have any ideas? George Ganahl. Friday, August 31, PM. I am having a similar issue. I sometimes lose the connection over night.

My Windows server does NOT have a password. I am wondering if it is a security issue in Windows 7 that is creating the issue because there is no administrator password. Does your server have an administrator password? Thursday, September 6, AM. If not try the same on the console of the server in question! Graham Nov 22, at UTC. Graham Nov 25, at UTC. What does net use show? Graham Dec 1, at UTC. And is the win 7 client known in that dns server?

Graham Jan 4, at UTC. Elliott Jan 4, at UTC. This can even be a defective switch port. Graham Jan 5, at UTC. If the autodisconnect value doesn't exist, follow these steps:.

In the Value data box, type ffffffff , and then click OK. The client-side session is automatically disconnected when the idling time lasts more than the duration that is set in KeepConn. Therefore, the session is disconnected according to the shorter set duration value between AutoDisConnect and KeepConn. To change the time-out duration in the client-side during a UNC connection, specify the arbitrary time in KeepConn.

Locate and then click the following key in the registry:. 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 then press ENTER:.

The maximum value for this command is 65, 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 then press ENTER:.