[FW1] Losing Connections to Mapped Network Drives

["Miller, Brad" <BMiller@FW1-NOSPAMcrai.com>]

> I'm running a Win95 client machine from home using VPN-1 SecuRemote
> Version 4.1 SP-2 3DES to connect to my company's network.  Once connected
> to the SecuRemote firewall, I use the "net use" DOS command to map drive
> letters to my company's network computers.  Even though I can successfully
> ping the company's computers using the names of the computers, "net use"
> doesn't work using the computer names -- but "net use" does work using the
> IP addresses of the computers.  So I can make the drive mappings
> successfully, but the problem is I eventually I lose connections to the
> network computers.  There seems to be no pattern as to how quickly I lose
> the connections -- sometimes after 10 minutes, sometimes after 40 minutes.
> When the drive is disconnected, the DOS message I get -- when for example
> I try "dir H:" -- is "The computer name specified in the network path
> cannot be located."  When I try "net use" again with the IP address to map
> the drive, I get the DOS Error 53, "The computer name specified in the
> network path cannot be located.  Make sure you are specifying the computer
> name correctly, or try again later when the remote computer is available."
> At this point, I can still successfully ping the computer as long as I use
> the IP address, but I cannot re-establish the drive mapping (either in DOS
> or in Windows Explorer) and I can't otherwise access the computer.
> 
> Any idea what might be causing the network drives to be disconnected and
> the access to the computers to be lost?
> 
> Thanks,
> Brad Miller
> Boston, MA
> 


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