[AccessD] Good old WinXP Home

>It does sound like another (seemingly) pointless limitation built into a
home version of a product by M$ to me.

'deed it do.

John W. Colby
www.colbyconsulting.com

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Ron Allen
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 1:58 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Good old WinXP Home


John,

Doing what you say is not a problem on XP Pro machines.
I've done it several times.

It does sound like another (seemingly) pointless
limitation built into a home version of a product by M$ to
me.

FWIW.

Ron


On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 13:12:59 -0400
  "John Colby" <jcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote:
>That may well be, but my network works fine for all the
>2K boxes.  Just
>added this in and I'm getting problems ONLY for the XP
>home box.  So were is
>the problem?
>
>John W. Colby
>www.colbyconsulting.com
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of
>Paulo
>Alexandre Ramos
>Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 12:21 PM
>To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
>Subject: Re: [AccessD] Good old WinXP Home
>
>
>John,
>
>
>I think that is bad network configuration.
>
>
>Paulo
>
>On Oct 24, 2003, at 4:39 PM, John Colby wrote:
>
>> I ordered a Dell for my sister-in-law with WinXP on it,
>>and have been
>> setting it up for her.  In the process I have to copy a
>>bunch of
>> directories
>> from one computer on my network to that box.  My net is
>>All Win2K Pro.
>>
>> In Win2K pro I can drag and drop a directory.  The
>>transfer starts.  I
>> can
>> then select and drag and drop the next directory.  That
>>transfer
>> starts.  I
>> can do this many times, and although each transfer slows
>>down to share
>> the
>> hard disk / network bandwidth, things just proceed along
>>smoothly.
>>
>> With WinXP Home, when I start the second, the whole
>>process locks up.
>> I
>> eventually get a "network connection lost".
>>
>> Isn't XP Home grand.
>>
>> John W. Colby
>> www.colbyconsulting.com
>>
>>
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