We run server 5.0+ with 50 users throughout our plant. It has been very solid and reliable.

Occassionaly (a few times a year) due to network traffic or someone has plugged into the network with a incompatable IP address, the FM applications loose the server's db list broadcast.

All of our users have the specific server's IP address in their host listing, but the only way I can require the menu broadcast is to re-boot the server (and then all is well). This of course is not a practical thing to do in a 24/6 operation.

Is there another way to refresh the server (W2K)(or from the server software) that the menu broadcast can be re-established?

Thanks

I am not sure about this, but have a look at the topic Host box Empty. It seems to me you are addressing the same problem. If not, I would like to know what your assumption is based on, about the plugging in of the incompatible IP address? We have looked at that cause the host box to become empty but it turned out this was not the root of the problem.