Vista Home Premium Doesn't Reliably Reconnect to Win2008 Server Shared Folders

The only domain-based PC is an XP Professional box which is working flawlessly.  I'd have to upgrade to Ultimate on one of the Vista Home PCs to test; however, I strongly suspect the domain based Vista PCs would be much less problematic.  I agree with your assertion regarding Home Vista in a corporate (albeit a small one!) environment.

I'll do the test with Ultimate and report back.  

We're running Symantec Endpoint 11.  It's working fine since I downloaded the latest version.  Out of the box, it wasn't functional.

Thanks for the help.

I've uninstalled the SEP on the server, and in the process of doing same on the workstations (taking longer than expected as I'm having to work around other peoples' schedules.  

I'm able to assign the drive letter successfully, but when the PC is rebooted I get an error "Microsoft Windows Network:  Multiple connections to a server or shared resource by the same user, using more than one user name, are not allowed.  Disconnect all previous connections to the server or shared resource and try again.  This connection has not been restored."

When the drive is deleted (net use p: /delete) it allows me to re-establish successfully.  I think upgrading to business Vista is in the near future.

Any recommendations for anti-virus/firewall for Win2008?  Thanks.

You don't need a seperate firewall, the Windows Firewall does just fine.

Kaspersky is (in my opinion) the best AV software out there, it has low resource usage, high detection rates, and is easy to manage.

Thanks, I appreciate the input--I'll let you know how things go as I complete them.

Matt:

Thanks for the input--I'll check it out.  

Finally installed upgraded to Vista Ultimate (there isn't a MS supported upgrade path from Vista Home Premium to Business) and can now join the domain.  Uninstalling SEP also seemed to help, but I don't think it was entirely at fault, as the XP boxes were connecting OK (with SEP).

Thanks for the input!

Thanks very much for your assistance!

Hey,

Good to hear you sorted it. Just FYI, I'd expect XP and SEP to work because the SEP issues are specifically for machines running Vista/Server 2008 (which are the same OS at their core).

I've not heard issues with XP/Server 2003 and SEP, but I still wouldn't use it anyway.

Thanks!
-Matt

Agreed....I'm not a Vista fan at the moment--anxiously awaiting Windows 7 (although I'm sure it will have its own issues).

Thanks again.