Or it will fail because they don’t find any live connection required. Usually, it’s fine unless you have applications run based on the live mapped connection. The reason why this happens is because Windows 7 system can drop the idle connections after a specified timeout period, 15 minutes by default. These are actually misleading because if you try to access it again it reconnects automatically and the red X disappears right after. Often, if you have a Windows 7 computer on your network that has a few network mapped drives, you may have noticed that in some cases these network mapped drives may disconnect from the network itself after certain period of time of inactivity, and that a red “X” shows up on the icon of the mapped drives like below.
