From: "Glenn Meadows" 

His connection is solid to the network, nothing else goes away.

The mail server is in a DMZ off of our firewall, and everyone goes through
the same connection to get there, both internal, and external when using
the VPN, or the public mail address.  What's strange, is that nobody else
is having connection problems to the server, just him.  There are about 30
of us "hitting" the mail server, and it's internally on a 100mb
network, even through the firewall.

Since it happens from any location he connects through,  (home, hotel, NY
office, Nashville office), I doubt it's a connection issue, unless it's the
Ethernet in his laptop going funky.

I think I'll turn on the systray indicator, and see if the network
disconnected warning pops up at times.  He's got a Dell Latitude 600 (I
think that's the model number), and uses docking stations at all 3
locations.  Each of the Dell Docks has a NIC built in to the dock, and it's
not a port replicaiton, because it's a totally separate connection number,
depending on if he's got the network cable plugged directly into the
laptop, or into the dock.  First time he used the dock, it did the
"New Hardware Detected" wizard.  Here in Nashville, he's got the
big dock, that includes a SCSI controller, as well as 2 extra PCI slots in
it, while the one at home and in NY is the small doc, that just has the
same connections that are on the laptop.  Here, we hooked up a high speed
SCSI scanner to replace the HP all in one gizmo, as well as a USB2 PCI
card, so he can have his iPod connected and load music at the higher speed.
 The laptop comes with a USB 1 port.  Nice Docks.  Bought them on eBay for
about 25.00 each, list new is hundreds of dollars. .

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Glenn M.
"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
message news:421b7f55$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> I've seen this happen when the mail server isn't responding correctly or
> at all - we had an outsourced mail server at one point, and whenever there
> was a network problem, everyone's Outlook would prompt for the password.
> Maybe check that there isn't anything wrong with the connection, first?
>
>
> Antti Kurenniemi
> (I have no idea *why* it did that, though)
>
> "Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
> news:421b44c4$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Anyone have any thoughts on why one users Outlook would 6-10 times a day
>> suddenly lose it's login with the mail server, and popup the login screen
>> asking for User ID and Password?  (Which is already filled in?)  You
>> select "Remember my password" check box, click OK, and
he's back in/on
>> again. Then, half an hour later, it's back.  During the interim, all mail
>> retrievals work just fine, till it pops up again.
>>
>> This happens, here on the internal network, from home when he's connected
>> via the VPN, or when he's in the NY office, also VPN'ing to here.
>>
>> This started a couple of weeks ago....
>>
>> --
>>
>> Glenn M.
>>
>
>

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