You people will laugh at this, although its a bit like preaching to the converted.
The people I sublet off have a big photcopier-fax-scanner thing on the network and I use it too. Its fairly new, i'll not mention the brand, but its not from Mr Fisher :-) It slowed right down today, taking about 10 minutes from the time it finished scanning a 28 page document until the doc appeared on the network share as a pdf. Normally it takes less than the time it takes me to walk back to my office and double click on the share. Also all the menus on the touch screen were as slow as a wet week. I called the service guy and described the symptoms: his response "You have to turn it off at the wall and restart it after 30 seconds, its no good turning off the front switch as that does not reboot the NT server in the box at the back, it will have run out of temp space, you need to turn it off at the wall about once a week." I said "maybe they should have stuck a linux server inside instead of NT" He agreed and said "but they like to do it the hard way". -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
