CompuServe Messages

Have you looked at the performance of your network yet as a possible cause of the problem? Do you have access to any type of a network analyzer, hardware or software? My thought is that your heavy duty rendering may be exceeding the available bandwidth of your network cable. The result will be that stations on the network will be unable to access the cable and will time out. You will have lost your mapping, login, etc. This may seem unlikely but I run a network here that is normal running 5 to 10% of bandwidth. When I put 2 users on who were doing very heavy network trafficing, (GIS work) they brought the whole system down by tieing up the available bandwidth. I had to put them on a seperate segment in order to keep everyone else running. Your network dealer may have some type of an analyzer you can borrow. As an alternative, the folks at ADesk may be able to give you a ballpark estimate on how much traffic your rendering is generating. Then your network dealer could tell you if you are pushing the bandwidth of your cable to the point where stations will time out.