[vwnc] This likely has nothing to do with VW, but ...

My office PC is windows XP with VMware
running on top of it and Vista running on VMware.

Right now, VMware is shut-down -- I disabled all the
services and rebooted -- same result.

Here is what happens.
We have quite a few files and folders on a network drive,
with a drive-letter associated.  About 10 or 15 times a day
while running VW (7.6) it indicates it cannot find a file or
folder on the network drive (local network).  Once it notes
this, if I try to access a windows folder icon on the network
nothing happens, no error, no freeze, just "nothing".  I do that
3 or 4 times and suddenly the folder opens and VW is also happy
again.

The only reason I am thinking this might be related to VW is I have
never seen it when I am just using windows -- it always seems to
occur when I am using VW and VW is the first to complain.

I tried running "ping" and it never hiccupped -- either because the
network lived at that level or because ping also stopped and did not
notice -- no packets lost.

Anyone seen anything like this before??

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On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:39:32 -0400
Dennis Smith <[hidden email]> wrote:

One of my clients *has* seen this behavior with XP clients
accessing network shares on Win 2k and 2k3 servers. No
real cause could be attributed to this erratic behavior, but
their 3D-CAD software was the first to notice. Sometimes
switching from Norton to Avira antivirus products helped,
one machine got better after exchanging the NIC, one is
still making problems ... after changing RAM, NIC, cables,
offices ...

Oh ... no VW apps on their machines, so I'd assume that VW
is not the cause of the problem, but just the program most sensitive
to it's effects.

>
> I tried running "ping" and it never hiccupped -- either because the
> network lived at that level or because ping also stopped and did not
> notice -- no packets lost.

ping does keep track of packets sent and received, I just can't recall
how you tickle the windows ping to report current stats.

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Is it possibly a UAC problem? What about using "Run as Administrator?"

David

On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 11:39 -0400, Dennis Smith wrote:

My office PC is windows XP with VMware
running on top of it and Vista running on VMware.

Right now, VMware is shut-down -- I disabled all the
services and rebooted -- same result.

Here is what happens.
We have quite a few files and folders on a network drive,
with a drive-letter associated.  About 10 or 15 times a day
while running VW (7.6) it indicates it cannot find a file or
folder on the network drive (local network).  Once it notes
this, if I try to access a windows folder icon on the network
nothing happens, no error, no freeze, just "nothing".  I do that
3 or 4 times and suddenly the folder opens and VW is also happy
again.

The only reason I am thinking this might be related to VW is I have
never seen it when I am just using windows -- it always seems to
occur when I am using VW and VW is the first to complain.

I tried running "ping" and it never hiccupped -- either because the
network lived at that level or because ping also stopped and did not
notice -- no packets lost.

Anyone seen anything like this before??

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Its XP that is having the problem, no Vista -- interestingly,
if I enable VMware and run on Vista, the problem does not
occur, only on the XP main OS -- both cases am running from
and administrator account.

We WILL resolve this -- will post the final solution when I get there.

david wrote:

Is it possibly a UAC problem? What about using "Run as Administrator?"

David

On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 11:39 -0400, Dennis Smith wrote:

My office PC is windows XP with VMware
running on top of it and Vista running on VMware.

Right now, VMware is shut-down -- I disabled all the
services and rebooted -- same result.

Here is what happens.
We have quite a few files and folders on a network drive,
with a drive-letter associated.  About 10 or 15 times a day
while running VW (7.6) it indicates it cannot find a file or
folder on the network drive (local network).  Once it notes
this, if I try to access a windows folder icon on the network
nothing happens, no error, no freeze, just "nothing".  I do that
3 or 4 times and suddenly the folder opens and VW is also happy
again.

The only reason I am thinking this might be related to VW is I have
never seen it when I am just using windows -- it always seems to
occur when I am using VW and VW is the first to complain.

I tried running "ping" and it never hiccupped -- either because the
network lived at that level or because ping also stopped and did not
notice -- no packets lost.

Anyone seen anything like this before??

    

Your business, your way. http://sageteagroup.com

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Cherniak Software Development Corporation   Fax: +1 416.798.0948
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