Red “X” on the icon of the mapped drive , Netwrok Drive appeared Disconnected

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<div dir&equals;"ltr" style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;">&NewLine;<p>Computer on your network that has a few network mapped drives&comma; you may have noticed that in some cases these network mapped drives may disconnect from the network itself after certain period of time of inactivity&comma; and that a red &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;X” shows up on&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><b>Reason&colon;<&sol;b><br &sol;>These are actually misleading because if you try to access it again it reconnects automatically and the red X disappears right after&period; The reason why this happens is because Windows 7 system can drop the idle conections after a specified timeout period&comma; 15 minutes by default <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><b>&nbsp&semi;Solution&colon;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;b><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Client side&colon; involved following registry change<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>HKLMSYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicelanmanworkstationparameters<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&sol;p>&NewLine;<div style&equals;"clear&colon; both&semi; text-align&colon; center&semi;"><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;4&period;bp&period;blogspot&period;com&sol;-P3ZpZKMUa-A&sol;UoyyM13FzFI&sol;AAAAAAAAAhc&sol;Faglc-JGz20&sol;s1600&sol;fix&period;jpg" style&equals;"margin-left&colon; 1em&semi; margin-right&colon; 1em&semi;"><img border&equals;"0" height&equals;"216" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;4&period;bp&period;blogspot&period;com&sol;-P3ZpZKMUa-A&sol;UoyyM13FzFI&sol;AAAAAAAAAhc&sol;Faglc-JGz20&sol;s400&sol;fix&period;jpg" width&equals;"400" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;If KeepConn does not exist&comma; create it in <em>Reg&lowbar;Dword&comma;<&sol;em> and set the time in seconds&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Server side&colon; Run follwing DOS command <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>net config server &sol;autodisconnect&colon;-1<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Microsoft addressed this issue in following KB <br &sol;>&nbsp&semi;http&colon;&sol;&sol;support&period;microsoft&period;com&sol;kb&sol;297684<&sol;div>&NewLine;

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