Drax

A couple come to mind, have you tried the surface area config for remote connections and also under the security logins for your SQL SVR in management studio put in \$ and given rights? (replacing the <> with your settings)

Yeh true enough with a number of them- we do use a select number of companies for elec's - you need someone you know will do a good job and has the kit.

We had similar issues, the volts were over 250 because we were right next to the distribution board (incoming feed) and its sometimes necessary to be raised because of transmission / volt loss over the building (or at the sub depending on distance)- the other end of our building was lower than 220v! Ask your facilities manager to check which electrical distribution board you're on - we were jointly on the kitchen one which had fluctuations everytime the fridges, cookers and the like came on which was a real pain. We're on a seperate board now and although still some smart trimming there are much less power related events. Edit: your PAT testers should be able to check your volts out when they do their annual checks

Hi all, can anyone help me with a really frustrating problem we have atm. We're running Win 2K3 and 2K8 svr, XP Pro clients on a mix of Managed & unmanged Pro Curve switches to a HP gl core with STP enabled and are getting a load of PCs hanging when accessing shared network drives on our main shared area svr (running 2K8) from our ICT dept. via either a fibre connected HP2524 or fibre connected Netgear Gigabit sw. This is a new server and was a replacement for a really old poor spec. device that we have had the same issues with. Network mapping when logged on to the shared drives appears ok but when a number of PCs access the Public area e.g. 1 class of 28 accessing a limited number of shared files this basically lags and some don't later recover the PCs in the room. Result - 10 - 15mins of lag and the switches show what looks like from the activity lights a stack of broadcasts. Odd though - other rooms can be working on their home drives (networked to a different svr) and be fine. Other related issues have been lengthy log on times - upto 20 mins! and application crashes - normally when accessing shared areas. We've looked at managed switch logs - nothing of note but packet captures show have shown a big proportion of ARP requests. Any ideas anyone? we've looked at most things we can think of and well ...