Sporadic problems connecting to Windows Network

I'm one of two Mac persons on a Windows network here at work. The problem is that we often can't connect to the server/network. It's a Windows 2003 Server, and we're both running on Tiger.
What puzzles me is that we sometimes can log on to the network, and sometimes not.
Is there any explanation (or preferably a solution).
Thanks in advance!
Message was edited by: Snuf

IT should know this from their Logs, but if you have access to the Server, check it's time & the Macs' times when you can't connect.
For the other problem, might try to use one of these lines in terminal...
sudo ipconfig set en1 BOOTP;sudo ipconfig set en1 DHCP
sudo ifconfig en0 down;sudo ifconfig en0 up
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