Vista Home Premium and networking many XPs to a Vista Share

[Guest]

I have a Vista Home Premium machine sharing a folder....not the "Public"
folder within Vista...let's call it Public2. For a full week all the
machines could access the share with no issues....note: it is wide open
using "guest access"

One night I installed Symantec antivirus corporate client v10.2, and now the
users experience constant intermittent drops from the share. They can open a
microsoft word file off the share and work the file...when they save it, the
shared is no longer accessible.

I have verified that the LAN connection is constantly up---no sleep mode and
can not seem to figure out the problem. Any ideas?

 

[AJR]

From your post "...One night I installed Symantec antivirus corporate client
v10.2, and now the users experience constant intermittent drops from the
share. ...". Have you contacted Norton?

 

[Guest]

no....I did check their site for vista issues... and found nothing. I will
uninstall norton and see if the problem corrects itself. If the problem
persists, I will reply again to this post tomorrow. Thanks

 

[Dana Cline - MVP]

Sounds to me like your issue is the Symantec program. Uninstall it and see
if your problems go away. If so, then find a different antivirus program.

Dana Cline - MCE MVP

 

[Guest]

Uninstalling Symantec client apparently worked. There are no network issues.
Thanks.