Wake Up Network Drives

I have an application where I send files from one
Computer to other computers via a network. Some of these
other computers are MAC's (using MacLan) and others are
Windows PC's. This is a peer-to-peer Network with about
20 PC's on the network.

My customer says that sometimes the network connections
seem to go to sleep. If you pull up exploreer and look
at My Network Places, some of the drives will be X'd
out. The program can then not get the copy command to
copy files to that computer.

However, if you use the Exploreer and double-click on the
drive, you can get into the drive and when you close the
window, the computer is no longer X'd out and the
application will copy the files.

Is there anyway to issue some command from an appliction
to that drive to perform the same wake-up function?

On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 04:50:07 -0700, "Raz" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

>I have an application where I send files from one
>Computer to other computers via a network. Some of these
>other computers are MAC's (using MacLan) and others are
>Windows PC's. This is a peer-to-peer Network with about
>20 PC's on the network.
>
>My customer says that sometimes the network connections
>seem to go to sleep. If you pull up exploreer and look
>at My Network Places, some of the drives will be X'd
>out. The program can then not get the copy command to
>copy files to that computer.
>
>However, if you use the Exploreer and double-click on the
>drive, you can get into the drive and when you close the
>window, the computer is no longer X'd out and the
>application will copy the files.
>
>Is there anyway to issue some command from an appliction
>to that drive to perform the same wake-up function?

Raz,

This article may explain the cause of your problem:
<http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314882>

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.