All, We have three machines in our shipping department running UPS Worldship.
There used to be only one workstation, and it was wired, but we reworked the shipping area, and now there are three workstations in an area that's never been wired, so all three stations are wireless - I don't know if this is relevant or not, but it probably is. The program gets data from our ancient ERP system - it generates text files that it places on a share - via an ODBC connection that's mapped to that share for those text files. What's happening is that frequently (more than once a week) the Win8.1 workstation is losing its ODBC connection (it also happens, but much less often, to the Win7 machines). The Explorer drive mapping remains, or is remapped, I'm not sure which - we're using a GPP for the drive mapping. Once this happens, I must use odbcad32.exe to remap the drive, because even though it's already mapped in Explorer, the drive letter doesn't show for ODBC. So far, it only seems to happen if the user logs off or shuts down the machine overnight - never during the day after they've logged in. I've checked the power settings for the workstations, and they're set as I would expect - no sleeping, hibernating, etc. I'm not finding anything in the workstation event logs that seems relevant. I'm running a trial now, asking them to just lock the workstations at night, to see if that helps, but has anyone run into this kind of problem, or have thoughts on how to mitigate it? Thanks, Kurt
