Network drives ejecting for no reason

I am setting up the office network and a few of the network drives keep ejecting for no reason. It's on a MAC/Windows network, and the Raid is a MEDEA brand RAID system.
Thanks

That would be either a Server and/or Router setting. The clients can only reply, (or not if they don't understand).
About the only thing you could do on yours would be to maybe make a New Location just for this, then try Gnarly's fine tip of an all off Location to help reset everything...
http://gnarlodious.com/Computer/MacOsx/WiFi

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> I have succussfully copied other files to the same network drive but
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