Network short cuts prompt for authentication

We recently moved our main (Windows Small Business 2000) Server to a new location (i.e., a different building).

Now, our network shortcuts do not work consistently ... after a few hours/day, when you double click the shortcut, there is a very long delay and then finally, an authentication dialog appears. the dialog does not accept a domain username/password - it only works if you enter the administrator password (and of course we cannot give that to everyone).

If you log off and on again, the shortcuts appear to work.

Any thoughts/suggestions you can offer would be greatly appreciated.

TIA

Al

By administrator, are you referring to the domain admin? If only the admin (or admin group) can log on I would double check your permission settings. I've seen Windows "forget" settings before.

If the permissions are set appropriately, and users still can't authenticate, could you possibly have an Active Directory problem going on?

Double check permissions and run dcdiag on your PDC to be safe. Also check DNS by having a workstation resolve the servername using nslookup (i.e., nslookup <servername>).

I use a very simple net use script that is set to run in each user's profile. This has always worked for me; not sure if it's the best way but it works:

net use /delete p:
net use /delete n:
net use /delete k:

net use p: "\\servername\Directory\Subdirectory"
net use n: "\\servername\Directory\Subdirectory"
net use k: "\\servername\Directory\Subdirectory"
etc.....

Let us know what you find out.