Anilrgowda

Question: I'm in the middle of doing an upgrade from a Windows NT 4.0 environment to a Windows 2003 AD environment. I have upgraded my PDC and most of the BDCs without incident. I finally ran into a snag when I upgraded the file server. Since upgrading, users are having issues with disconnections and strange Excel problems.

The enviroment has mixed clients consisting of Windows 98 SE & Windows XP. The 98 clients are needed because of an application compatibility issue (long story.) The file server, which was a BDC and is now a DC, was upgraded from Windows NT 4.0 SP6a to Windows Server 2003.

Anyway, here are the issues:

1. Randomly, some of the 98 clients will lose their mappings to the shares on the file server. After the connection is lost, when they try to acces it it's prompting them for their password. After you enter the password, it still won't connect. When you log them out/in it still won't connect. After a reboot they able to successfully connect. We have tried installing the AD client, but that doesn't resolve it.

2. When some users try to save an Excel file (from Excel 97) to the network drive on the file server, it's creating an Excel temp file that keeps growing until you kill Excel...some of the files have grown to several Gig before we kill the process. I know the tmp file is a normal operation of Excel, but it should create a 5+ Gb file from a 500 Kb spreadsheet.

Any ideas? I'm thinking it's something to do with a SID but I have no idea what could be causing it. They don't seem to be having problems accessing shares on other servers that I've upgraded.

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!

Anilrgowda

Have you reviewed this information:
How to enable Windows 98/ME/NT clients to logon to Windows 2003 based Domains