I have a client on Vista Business with mapped drives to a 2k3 Small Business Server. When the person leaves at night they stay logged into the network and upon coming in in the morning have lost connections to their mapped drives. After clicking on the drives they do come back but if you don't click on the they won't. How do I get it to actually keep the drive active all the time. I am not rebooting the server at night or disconnecting the users in any way. All the XP machines are fine. Thanks for helping!

Hi, When the issue occurs, please try the following actions to check if the status of the network drives restore to connected : Press F5 to refresh the Computer window. Close and reopen the Computer window. Additionally, please let me know if this issue causes any business impact.

f5 works similarly to double clicking or triple clicking the drive it does eventually come back but why do I have to close and reopen or click f5? There is business impact, the attorney in question says the machine takes a couple of minutes to boot/reboot so he would rather turn it off about once a week instead of everyday. He bills at $600 an hour so 6 minutes is....you guessed it $100 times 3 attorneys is $300 a day........ If you are using xp it does not have this problem....please help I have found lots of posts and no solutions.....I have never seen a post get looked at 900 times and not get fixed!!! Service Pack 2 maybe??

Have you changed the power options for the machine to not power down anything to save power? I don't recall how the computers are networked but wireless adapters can be powered down which would drop connectivity. I'd turn everything in the advanced settings to always on to be sure that wasn't the issue