Wireless Network and recover

We have some users' overseas who are doing ACAD2002 drawings using a
wireless network. Laptop acts as dedicated server which other laptops access
drawings from.

At night, they take the laptops home, server, network, and all. When they go
to open the drawings, they all say they need to be recovered.

Any ideas?


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Reid M. Addis
Registered Architect
Architectural Applications Specialist
Granary Associates
411 North 20th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19130
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Improper shutdown sequence. They probably close the server before the
clients. Wireless or not has no impact.

--Cy--

 

We are shutting the server down last. Other ideas?


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Regards,
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Reid M. Addis
Registered Architect
Architectural Applications Specialist
Granary Associates
411 North 20th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19130
Ph. 215-665-7056
email:

 

Shooting in the dark....

Try setting "incremental save percent" (ISAVEPERCENT) to "0" to ensure the
entire file is saved with each save.

What network OS are you using? If Netware, make these setting to Client 32:

File Caching: Off
File Commit: On

 

I always set ISAVEPERCENT to 0, but thanks.
The laptop is not a "dedicated" server. It is all peer to peer (I think, I'm
not the Network guy)

All the laptops are running XP Pro. The "server" is an IBM, not sure of the
model, while the "workstations" are Sony Vaio's (with BIG, wide screens!)

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Regards,
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Reid M. Addis
Registered Architect
Architectural Applications Specialist
Granary Associates
411 North 20th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19130
Ph. 215-665-7056
email:

 

Sounds like a strange problem, but I've seen stranger things happen because
of Spyware and Malware when it comes to XP.

I use a combination of Spyware Doctor (pctools.com) and the Microsoft Anti
Spyware Beta to clean up computers. Neither program seems capable of curing
every problem out there, but the combination of the two will get the job
done. However, I wouldn't recommend leaving them both running because
they'll slow your computer. Use them and disable them until you do a weekly
scan, etc.

Also, on the server notebook you might want to exclude .dwg files from your
antivirus software to see if that has an effect.

Rich

 

I'd be pretty sure it isn't this. Makes no sense. Should affect the drawings
regardless of whether they are accessed on site or off. Same equipment, same
software.

Thanks anyway. Anyone from Autodesk seen this before?

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Regards,
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Reid M. Addis
Registered Architect
Architectural Applications Specialist
Granary Associates
411 North 20th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19130
Ph. 215-665-7056
email:

 

I've seen with "my own eyes" a computer that could save files locally, but
files saved coming in from a network share were saved corrupt because the
tcp stack was corrupt.

The computer had Malware. I had to removed the Malware then I had to
reinstall the TCP/IP protocol. (In XP you can't just reinstall TCP/IP like
you do in NT4 or Win2000, you have to get the tech doc from MS and follow
the procedure.)

 

Yeah but the machines are ALL THE SAME!!!!
Just the location is changing, so this is not the issue. If it were, it
would be a problem whether in one location or another.

Don't get me wrong. I appreciate your taking time to respond, it just isn't
helping, which is why I wondered if the people who wrote the code new
anything about this. It has something to do with it being wireless. Perhaps
there's some interference in on location verses another?

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Regards,
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Reid M. Addis
Registered Architect
Architectural Applications Specialist
Granary Associates
411 North 20th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19130
Ph. 215-665-7056
email:

 

Any chance they could all plug in to a $50 ethernet switch and see what
happens? If the switch works in the location where wireless doesn't, and the
wireless works somewhere else, then I would think maybe it is a
wireless/location issue. I would then try a different WAP, just to see what
happens.

Best of luck,
Gordon