>Hi Paul,
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>Yes the data resides on NTserver 4.0 (sp3) and I mapped all of my users to the same share i.e \\pima\foxpro\mktgapp this is their [w:]. I don't understand the last part of your question though. Could you re-post...I don't want to miss a point here. Leave no rock un-turned as they say!
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>Hope to here from you soon!
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John,

I think Paul is getting at the network cabling, if you and the production machines are on different cable runs, they may be getting a saturated cable woith lots of collisions causing retries.