Re: Network file copy timeout

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From: evan b (evan_at_cheapaschips.com.au_removethis)
Date: 12/31/04 

Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 11:22:40 +1030

Desmond thanks for the reply
But it's a laptop with inbuilt nic
and all switches are on AUTO and all cards are on AUTO
and this is the only one in about 80 machines it fails with.
I will try a PCMCIA card incase the nic is stuffed but I dont think it is.

Anyone else?

"Desmond Lee" <mcp@donotspamplease.mars> wrote in message
news:2E3D781C-C9DA-4F2A-8E37-CBA1225075BB@microsoft.com...
> Try to fix the NIC speed to either 10 Mbps or 100 Mbps, and not use
> Auto-negotiate. Do the same on the switch.
>
> Alternatively, introduce a working NIC from elsewhere, disable the
existing
> NIC and repeat the copy process.
>
> "evan b" wrote:
>
> > List,
> > I have this problem on our network where a largish file keeps timing out
on
> > copy with the device no longer available error.
> >
> > All these things were working before but since a reformat of the laptop
and
> > reinstall of XP pro+sp2 it decided to give us the shits.
> > The network is switched and the file is on a w2.3k server (standard)
> >
> > I have seen this before on an unswitched network and I am led to believe
it
> > has to do with the SMB timeout (lots of googling) the error does not
occur
> > on other machines so it's clearly workstation related does anyone know
how
> > to resolve this?
> >
> > Yes we have used downgraded+upgraded+supplied drives for the nic
(broadcom
> > 550x)
> >
> > If anyone could help I'd appreciate it.
> >
> > thanks
> > evan
> >
> >
> >

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