thanks so much for providing info on this. i went through the entired thread you suggested.

do you have any idea why disabling smb2 on windows 2008 server can sometimes causes loss of network connection (IOW, nothing works.).

network admin tried disabling smb2 on both TS and file server (both are windows 2008) but becuase of that these 2 computers were not able to communicate with each other.

i want to know if i suggest them to disable smb2 only on the file server then will they have any communication problems between workstation and server? all workstations are xp except TS (which is again windows 2008)

i read in that thread you suggested that few other people also had similar problem of loss of network connection when tried to switch back to smb1.

please let me know if you have any idea.

thanks in advance again.

james