Are the laptops hard wired or using wireless access to the network,if the later get the client to get rid of the wireless.
>Would there be more than 10 shares on the W/S that has the DB installed ?
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>No, just 5 or fewer workstations. The common things are:
>Using Vista only
>So far, this problem seems limited to laptop only setups.
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>One Example setup is: 2 Dell Vostro 1510s sharing data off of a Dell Vostro 1710
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>Internally we have created a small network with laptops only using every bad setting possible but have been unable to reproduce any problems:
>1. Hard drive cacheing enabled on the primary
>2. Allow computer to turn off NIC to save power
>3. Allow computer to turn off Hard Drive to save power
Regards N Mc Donald