Problem copying to student machines using ARD

I manage a school lab and have been using Remote Desktop, all of a sudden the copy command to student computers stopped working. I found how to do a clean install and updated ARD but it still isn't working. I can access the machines, control them,everything but copy to them. my student machines are on 10.6.8 and I'm using ARD 3.7.2. I'm wondering if updating my machines to 10.7 would help? Any suggestions would really be appreciated

When things "suddenly stop working", that can be an indication that somthing about the underlying network has changed. You might want to check if the IT group has changed out, or reconfigured, any networking hardware recently.

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