>>Also, a long shoot in the dark: did you remove oportunistic locking on that machine? You can see how to remove it here: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q296264
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>>Jaime
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>Quite scary article (do it on your own risk <g>), but I have nothing to lose <g> I'll try that and I guess I would need another re-boot <g>

I generally ***always*** remove oportunistic locking in problematic networks and/or workstations. With Novell this is quite easy ( just a line in the autoexec.ncf ) but with Windows it's quite a pain...