Hope someone can help, We have an Access 97 DB running on a TCP/IP network. We have approx 8 users using it (not all simultaneously). We started with the DB on a W2000 server with a split DB distributed to the users. Every now and again, sometime whilst they were typing a report, sometimes when the DB was open but idle on their screen, they would get the message "Disk or network error". We tried amalgamating the DB again, and the users accessing it via a shortcut. We tried moving the server to a new network point, we even tried putting the DB onto a W98 machine, all to no avail!! We have put network sniffers onto the network, and it comes up clean as a whistle, with it peeking briefly at 40% usage. PLEASE PLEASE can someone shed some light on this before I throw myself out of the nearest window!! thanks Tony

I had the same problem a couple of years ago. I can't remember most of the suggestions (like make sure that /temp is established and pointed to in an environment variable (TEMP=C:\TEMP). None of them fixed my problem. The only networked PC which had this problem was a Windows 95 PC. It had a specific set of hardware which was the culprit. I didn't solve the problem until I upgraded the machine to windows 98.