Network drives disconnect on sleep

[cleaner416]

Greetings -

I have a Linux box sharing network drives using SMB. It is a very basic configuration with full permissions for anyone in the LAN.

With a couple of different Macs running Panther, I have no problem connecting to these shared drives using the finder or a script. However, when the Macs sleep, the shared drives are not there anymore when the Macs wake up. It is a bit cumbersome to reconnect, and it causes many errors if an application is left open that is using a file on the network drives.

Any suggestions on how to fix this? Thanks in advance!

[Norouzi]

From what I understand the network drive disconect when the PM goes to sleep because the ethernet port is not active when the machine sleeps so the connection is lost. Example: When I put my PM to sleep the "PC Activity" light on my cable modem goes out because the port is not active.

Now I think there is an option somewhere that will have the machine reconnect to network drives after waking up, but I'm not at my Mac to check. Also I could be thinking of an option to reconnect at startup.

[cleaner416]

Yeah that makes sense - no power, no connectivity, no connection. I'll probably just write a script to reconnect on wake-up - I can't seem to find a reconnect option in the prefs anywhere.

Thanks!

[dr bognus]

the same happens with my school network... when the computer is put to sleep the airport or whatever connects it to the internet is shut down, i think it is because the computer does not keep the connection while it is asleep as it is not carrying out any processes... i think

Therefore i think this is a problem you will probably have to live with although it is very easy to load network discs and a mac should be able to store the password if there is one..

Dr B