Symbol server - odd behaviour

Hi,

I configured VC.NET 7.1 symbol server as
"srv*e:\temp\symbols*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols";, however
the behaviour is strange. When I start debugging, the debugger communicates
something with symbol server, I can see that new folder is created under
e:\temp\symbols, but the subfolder is deleted and the same follows (I
suspect), for all symbols the debugger is trying to download. At the end the
folder is (again) empty, I have no error messages and the symbols are not
used. However I tried manually download the symbols with symcheck.exe, it
works and for the manually downloaded symbols, the debugger use them.

What can be the source of problem? I have Win2k security rollup 1.

Thanks, Jan


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