Guest Jay man Posted February 20, 2008 Posted February 20, 2008 We have intermittent issues with users mapping a drive to a dfs share. Drive mappings happen through a login script. Drive mappings to other servers work fine. Symptoms: 1.A "system error 3 has occurred" error appears when running the login script or trying to map the drive manually through DOS using net use n: \\domain\share\folder 2.When trying to map through explorer, a system error occurs. 3.Yet when you browse to the share from run you can view the contents and only then are you able to map the drive to \\domain\share\folder The above happens irrespective of whether just the domain name is used or the FQDN is used. Client workstations having the problem are Windows Xp pc's. DC's are Windows 2003 Sp1, along with file servers hosting the data. Anyone had or have the same issue with a solution? Cheers
Guest Thee Chicago Wolf Posted February 20, 2008 Posted February 20, 2008 Re: intermittent dfs drive mapping issues >We have intermittent issues with users mapping a drive to a dfs share. Drive >mappings happen through a login script. Drive mappings to other servers work >fine. > >Symptoms: >1.A "system error 3 has occurred" error appears when running the login >script or trying to map the drive manually through DOS using net use n: >\\domain\share\folder >2.When trying to map through explorer, a system error occurs. >3.Yet when you browse to the share from run you can view the contents and >only then are you able to map the drive to \\domain\share\folder > > >The above happens irrespective of whether just the domain name is used or >the FQDN is used. > >Client workstations having the problem are Windows Xp pc's. DC's are Windows >2003 Sp1, along with file servers hosting the data. > >Anyone had or have the same issue with a solution? > >Cheers You may want to upgrade to Server 2003 SP2 some time soon. See if any of the info in these KBs helps: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938666 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/944505 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931685 - Thee Chicago Wolf
Guest Jay man Posted February 26, 2008 Posted February 26, 2008 Re: intermittent dfs drive mapping issues Hi Mr Wolf Thanks for your input. I've been through those kb's you supplied and none seem relevant unfortunately. In the interim I've excluded the following directories from being scanned by Trend Officescan: d:\dfs s:\shareddirectory (this is the dir where all the shares are) You mention upgrading to SP2, I've been through the list of fixes SP2 is supposed to resolve and kb898900 is the only fix related to dfs there is. Does not seem to be related. Also did I mention, this problem is intermittent. Any more ideas? "Thee Chicago Wolf" wrote: > >We have intermittent issues with users mapping a drive to a dfs share. Drive > >mappings happen through a login script. Drive mappings to other servers work > >fine. > > > >Symptoms: > >1.A "system error 3 has occurred" error appears when running the login > >script or trying to map the drive manually through DOS using net use n: > >\\domain\share\folder > >2.When trying to map through explorer, a system error occurs. > >3.Yet when you browse to the share from run you can view the contents and > >only then are you able to map the drive to \\domain\share\folder > > > > > >The above happens irrespective of whether just the domain name is used or > >the FQDN is used. > > > >Client workstations having the problem are Windows Xp pc's. DC's are Windows > >2003 Sp1, along with file servers hosting the data. > > > >Anyone had or have the same issue with a solution? > > > >Cheers > > You may want to upgrade to Server 2003 SP2 some time soon. See if any > of the info in these KBs helps: > > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938666 > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/944505 > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931685 > > - Thee Chicago Wolf >
Guest cmllanes Posted June 30, 2008 Posted June 30, 2008 Re: intermittent dfs drive mapping issues Hi Jay man, I am wondering if you ever found a solution to this problem. I am now having precisely the same issue with DFS-mapped drives. And I have also been through the KB articles referenced, but they do not address this specific problem. My problems started about 6 weeks ago, and I thought that it might be due to a Windows Update. But I now see that your original post is far earlier... Regards -- cmllanes ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cmllanes's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?u=52283 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=917740 http://forums.techarena.in
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