When I access a folder on the network and begin to work my way through to the subfolders every once in a while when I go into a folder It will automatically jump me back a folder or two on the drive. I go back in and it jumps me right back out. Once it starts doing this it repeats for a few minutes and sometimes recovers other times I'll restart the system. It happens whether logged on as Domain Admin or standard user. So my network connection to that server and drive is still active it is almost like it is timing out… I have permissions to access the drive and using the same user on another system at the same time can access the same data. I have not been able to narrow it down and further yet. It is happening on multiple systems on the network, they are all Windows7 SP1 PC’s Physical and Virtual on a Windows 2003/2008 Domain with 08 DFS. Today a new clue which may or may not be related is when in an application using the DFS share I received the pop up error "Library Manager: Fatal disk error. Retry?" XP machines on the DFS share do not appear to have the same issue.

Hi, Did the folder jump issue only occur on Windows 7? Since the issue is networking related, I suggest updating the network adapter driver to the latest version from the manufacture's. If any security software is running, disable them on both sides. Also perform a Clean Boot to check the result. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929135 Regarding the DFS issue, it could be caused by folder jump random. I suggest recreating the DFS. Best Regards, NikiPlease remember to click "Mark as Answer" on the post that helps you, and to click "Unmark as Answer" if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

To troubleshoot the issue I changed the logon scripts to use the direct server paths rather than the DFS paths and those worked all day with no issues confirming that it definately was a DFS issue. I will be rebuilding DFS or removing it on the directories it is no longer necessary on. Thanks for the input.