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Hello Irina

We also have an SP5 and have been through this issue. In the end we 
decided not to attach to the network. The big problem we have is that 
our network environment is highly managed by out IT folk who are always 
doing upgrades, virus checks and who knows what else. As a consequence, 
individual PCs can suddenly slow to a crawl without any warning. This 
is real problem if you are doing some critical acquisition protocol. We 
also have limited admin rights when we are on the network (reasonably 
so!) that makes it a real pain to do software upgrades or hardware 
modifications etc. So our confocal PCs are not networked... Neither are 
any of other our image acquisition or processing PCs.

Our users have no problems at all in taking their data off the PC with 
USB memory stick, CDs, or DVDs. This has the added advantage of 
ensuring that users are responsible for their own backups and data 
security...

If we need to download something from a website for the confocal PC, we 
simply do it on another PC.

I know not all networks are set up like ours, but if yours is, then our 
experience is that it's really not worth the fuss.

hope that helps

IAN


On Friday, June 22, 2007, at 05:16  AM, Irina Solovei wrote:




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