Having PROBLEMS connecting two of my office computers to the server. I get a CMD does not support UNC paths as current directories. Every morining I have to run cmd and log in / connect to the server files as an admin. I'm not sure why this only happens with two computers. The other two computers have not problem connecting. Im running Windows 2003 server and XP on the computers. Can someone give me some feed back. Thanks, Joe

How are you authenticating for the UNC connections and do you have mapped drives or a temporary mapped drive to copy data from point A to B

I have seen before where it doesn't like xcopy \\server1\data\*.* c:\backup /s/d/y and the fix is to set up a pre-authenticated mapped drive by mapping \\server1\data as Z: or some drive letter not conflicting with your existing configuration and then you can call xcopy z:\*.* c:\backup /s/d/y to copy the latest data/folders to the backup location and not be a bandwidth hog, since you are only copying over newest or RECENTLY edited or created files/folders.

Only problems I have also seen is where you do not have EXCLUSIVE access to coping a file that may be cached or in use in some way like a *.mdb etc

You can also create authenticated drive mappings in your batch, but this is a HUGE Security Risk if anyone should view the batch file etc, they get the admin password!!!

HOPE this helps..

Dave