Aloha Problem under windows XP embedded posready 2009

[bellsandwhistles]

on a newish pc which i have installed Aloha running on windows xp embedded pos ready 2009
I get a message

Cannot locate Master Terminal, Trying to recover

in a red boxed message covering the whole screen.

Also the designated printer an epson u200 starts typing out ????? and other crap
and a message is displayed that the kitchen printer is out of paper and
it auto reroutes to our Pizza Printer.
The error message is still in background.

If I terminate the application. I can ping to all of my other terminals (3 of)
I can also do a directory list from \\term1\bootdrv and the other terminals. So it knows my
network which it is a member.

If I check DEBOUT.001 on the Backoffice Server I see a message

Listen: connected to Node 2
Recieve Failure: Node 2 code OA command 95

and a whole series of these errors repeated until I terminated the app on Term2.

 

[posrescue]

Recheck all network and communication. LANA, sharing, firewall, term string, workgroup, NetBIOS enabled over TCP\IP, compatible IP, same subnet. Make sure you can map a network drive to bootdrv on the master. Make sure there is no EXITING file on the terminal in TMP. (Code 0A usually means the session is closing)