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Date:	Mon, 29 Apr 2002 18:11:14 PST7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Peer network connection loss, still

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In <3CCDED49.26009931@charter.net>, on 04/29/02
at 05:03 PM, Ray Davison said:

>the machine name, user id and password on the front. Machine and user
>are unique, the password is common to all.

OK, just checking. I tend to use the same userid on all machines. I can
live without the messenger service because I can always talk to myself.

>I keep coming back to one point that I think is significant. The failure
>mode is inline. All the machines are connected, files have been
>transferred, and then one machine stops being able to access the others.

That's a different problem than the typical "Can not send messages" popup.

>The only fix I know is reboot and log-on. Log-on is an object on the
>Warp center, hence log-on is consistent.

You need to determine if the NIC is hung or if the LAN stack is dead.
Best way to test this is:

net view

and it's variants. There's also a couple of LAN error logs you can
review. There's also netping in \mptn\applets, if you installed them.

Steven

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