Then I'd look for something that happens sporadically, around the same time as this stuff happens.
That could be anything from a staff member who comes in only periodically and uses an otherwise never used machine to
... the floors in the department are heavy-cleaned around that time to
... shipments arrive and the freight elevator is used around that time to
... anything goes.
I've heard of this kind of thing when something electrical is used randomly (periodically) and some hub or even just network cable is affected by current now running in a very (too) close line.


>Thanks for replying Jim,
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>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 ?
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>TIA
>Greg
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>>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 ?
>>>
>>>TIA
>>>Greg Foote