Thanks for replying Jim,

This happens very sporatically (sp?) and like 1 or twice a month, and there is nothing indicating processor or ram overload, nothing in the event log idicating trouble or license issues etc ?

TIA
Greg


>The very first thing I'd look at is what's changed and, no matter what it is, back it fully out.
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>Virus detection software or something that intermittently affects network/hub cabling are the first things that come to mind.
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>Might there be some periodic load on the server that's causing heavy HD activity or saturates its RAM such that caching is obviated?
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>good luck
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>>Our executable will stop responding and then if you wait for it it will finally come back 1-2 mins later and report a file acces denied error and its always a cdx or fpt or bak file ? The code is trying to open dbfs on a file server that everyong has r/w access to who uses the program.
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>>This happens with no regularity or pattern but when it happens to one person usually others will also have it happen to them at the same time but with different files !
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>>I saw a similar thread in reference to windows 9x peer2peer but this is Win2000 Server SP2 !!
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>>Does this sound like a file handles issue ?
>>How do you (if you do) set the total # of files each user is allowed to open ?
>>How do you (if you do) set the total # of files the server itself can provide handles for ?
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>>TIA
>>Greg Foote