Networking Problem
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I hate to post this here as it is not a SU problem, but hoping someone might have some advice....
My boss purchased a laptop with Vista Business; everyone else in the office has XP Pro. He can connect to the network, but his computer doesn't stay connected. Anytime he wants to access a file on the network, it says it is unavailable, so he has to go to his "network places" and wait for his computer to scan and reconnect to all the computers. I'm thinking there must be an option somewhere that tells the computer to stay connected, but I am unfamiliar with Vista. Any help would be appreciated. -
I know almost jack about networking and absolutely jack about Vista, but it sounds like it may be a firewall settings issue. Go to the firewall settings on his PC and.. well... mess around with them
. I had a similar problem with my office wireless network for ehem... the last two years and I think I solved it a couple of days ago (just a month before I'm leaving the office 
) by ticking all the checkboxes under ICMP in the Advanced Firewall settings. I'm going to try to trim them back one by one to see which are actually necessary to keep open. -
Its a good chance that as its a laptop, Vista is powering down the network adapter if it thinks its not being used.
Did a search in google (vista power network disconnect) and found the following:
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/33307acf-0698-41ba-b014-ea0a2eb8d0a81033.mspx#EAMAC
5th one in the list: "I get disconnected from my network periodically"http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928152
Hope this helps, sorry I didn't see your post earlier.
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