Patricia, I ran into something like this a few years ago when I accidentally gave two computers on a network the exact same name in Windows. (I was calling them System1, System2, etc. and lost count.) They worked fine when only one was logged in, and appeared to work when both were in use, but screwed up in unpredictable ways.
It's something to check at least.
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Ralph Allan
Business Computer Centre
Prince George BC Canada