All mounted network drives disconnect after sleep

10.4, airport, powerbook.
All network (SMB) drives connect fine manually. They also reconnect after after login (modified login items). However, they will not persist after sleep.
After this powerbook sleeps, ALL network drives are dropped and have to be manually reconnected. Why?
I've seen this question asked about 20 times out here, but never answered.

Thanks for the reply, Tim.
However - this is a serious SMB functionality issue. Just with OS-X. Not even Linux will misbehave like this.
I have 8 (eight) drives that I need mounted - all over the network. I simply cannot fiddle with manual remounts because they are NFS or SMB drive mounts and OSX freaks out. It takes me about 5 minutes to unmount all the drives, and as long to reconnect them. Which I have to do whenever this little Powerbook sleeps. Your solution of a manual disconnect/reconnect is absurd. Multiply this by the # of Apples we have, and you see what I mean.
We have 15 Windows laptops, and as many desktops that keep ALL of these drives mounted regardless of sleep, power cycle etc. All machines except the Apples.
If this bug needs escalation, let's do it. I've seen countless gripes about this issue and NO resolution. This is NOT a feature, or a requirement for user manual drive unmount intervention. It's a BUG.

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