yes they were originally connected through afp, but that seemed to cause even more problems, as they were getting dropped off the server every 10 minutes or so... but i guess its worth another shot...
I posted this question to this website yesterday, but i thought i would share it with the entire forum if anyone can shed some light on what seems to be a fairly widespread problem...
We are working in a Windows 2003 server mixed environment with about 15 Windows XP machines and 5 or 6 OS...