You're welcome. I'm about out of ideas on this one though I think it might
be worth trying the items I noted for AW.

I see a lot of laptops with wired and wireless NICs without this kind of
problem, so I have some doubt the idea you mentioned would help. What the
other user told you is interesting, and should give some clue, but I don't
know what to make of it at this point. If anything more comes to mind, I'll
let you know.
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"JT" <JT@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks for your help GTS. As am I bother by this issue. I will keep
> trying
> some things to see if I can get some work arounds. I read a couple of
> articles about the autoconfiguration to turn it off on one network card if
> you have two. all the laptops have 1 lan and 1 wireless. Do you think
> this
> might be the cause of it.
>
> I already tried the net stop DHCP and realize that doesn't work. Thanks
> again for all you help.
>
> I was talking with another user and he gets around it by doing ipconfig
> /release prior to getting off the out of office network. If he does that,
> it
> will work fine when he returns. Unfortunately, most of my users are not
> really computer savvy.