I am having an interesting issue on one of my client computers that started just recently. We are running windows server 2008 R2 for our file server, and windows XP Pro as the client OS. The file server has been setup and working flawlessly for just over a year, until recently. We have user folders setup in active directory that maps to the Z: drive. Sporadically throughout the week, and even during the day, one user will loose their Z: drive and get an error that says
"Z: is not accessible.
Access is denied"
Now for the twist. I can go to Run and type \\ServerName\FolderPath on the users's computer, signed in as the user, and access the folder just fine. I can even manually map another drive to the same location, say the X: drive and have it work, however some programs are dependent on the Z: drive to run... A restart usually fixes the problem, but not all the time...
I have checked permissions, and as far as I can tell everything looks good. I even created a new folder and transfered the content across thinking that it might have been something left from the migration to the new server, but have had no success.
Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated..
Thanks in advance,
Thomas
"Z: is not accessible.
Access is denied"
Now for the twist. I can go to Run and type \\ServerName\FolderPath on the users's computer, signed in as the user, and access the folder just fine. I can even manually map another drive to the same location, say the X: drive and have it work, however some programs are dependent on the Z: drive to run... A restart usually fixes the problem, but not all the time...
I have checked permissions, and as far as I can tell everything looks good. I even created a new folder and transfered the content across thinking that it might have been something left from the migration to the new server, but have had no success.
Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated..
Thanks in advance,
Thomas