Windows XP SP3 DFS Network shares not refreshing

If you run a network where you connect Windows XP to DFS shares, you may encounter the issue whereby a user can create a new file/folder but not see it until they refresh the folder, this can lead to a large number of 'New Folder' entries if the user believes that they have not actually created a new folder.

The issue can also occur when moving or deleting items.

Microsoft list a fix which consists of a registry entry, apparently this was introduced in Windows XP SP2 but you can still get the issue with SP3.

The fix is a registry entry in the following path

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

It is a DWORD entry and is called 'NoSimpleNetIDList'

the value needs to be set to 1




Reference:

Microsoft Support Information

KB974909 Hyper-V network connection dies

Virtual machines running in Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 R2, Datacenter, Enterprise and Standard editions may occasionally lose their network connection during either high throughput or with multiple concurrent connections.

Restoring the connection can only be achieved by restarting the virtual machine.

By downloading and installing the patch found at knowledge base article KB974909 this problem will be alleviated, however this does require you to restart the host machine.