>>>Try disabling any anti-virus software you may have running on the W2KPro box.
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>>Would the local stations anti-virus software affect network performance if the local station was constantly scanning dbf files on the network server?
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>Yes it would, especially if the AV software was configured to scan every file (as opposed to just program files) upon any activity with the file. I've seen this be a performance problem with Norton, regardless of the OS. Tweaking Norton's configuration a little goes a long way to address I/O performance over the network.
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>Laterness,
>Jon

Thanks Jon. We just did a random selection of 10 machines, which are supposed to be excluding the data directories anyways and found that 4 of them were still scanning them.

That could help our problem also.

Ken