"Schoolguy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hey Everyone,
> I work in a school system. We use Windows XP, 2000 and in the Elementary
> schools we use Win 98 machines. We have a server 2003 domain, upgraded
> from
> NT4.0 this past summer. Each grade, K-5 logs on as one user when a class
> is
> in the computer lab, i.e. there might be twenty some students that log on
> as
> CG3, which would be grade three. Now this works fine in three out of the
> four
> elementary schools, but one it does not. They logon and work just fine,
> but
> when they all go to log off at the same time almost all of the computers
> freeze. then you have to wait several minutes before you are able to log
> them
> off. This was happening with NT4.0 also; any ideas?
opportunistic file locking ? applies to both OS's
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=296264
easy enough to toggle on or off to check