SQL Connection to SAP Reset

Any idea why SAP would keep "forgetting" the location of a company database (SQL) and then prompt the user to provide credentials to a "local" database that does not exist?
This just started happening on a client workstation this week. Every time the user logs out of SAP, SAP can no longer see the SQL database it was attached to when it is opened each time so an administrator needs to keep manually enter the server name and credentials.
Any thoughts on this?
Thanks in advance!

Hi,
Refer this note:1156461
User profile not saved with roaming profile
Symptom
Sap Business one user settings are not saved under the user's
Local Settings folder.
When you use roaming profiles, SAP Business One user settings are
not being saved after logout from the server.
Other terms
Citrix, roaming profile, user profile
Reason and Prerequisites
Application error
Solution
SAP plans to fix this issue in a patch for 2007 A. Please refer to the info.txt file on SAP Service Marketplace to confirm that the fix was included. After the fix user setting path will be loaded from unicode configuration file.
From SAP business One 2007A SP00 PL35, edit the SAP Business One client configuration on the terminal server in
..\SAP Business One\Conf\b1-config-path.txt
Open the file and set the path to
%USERPROFILE%\Application Data\SAP\SAP Business One
Save the file. The setting will now be saved in the roaming profile.
In case of a load balancing environment including several terminal servers another issue might occur:
The profile path on one server might be "C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME", on another server it might be "C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME.DOMAIN". This is Windows behaviour.
This leads to incorrect entries in the "b1-current-user.xml", which is written to the profile. The "b1-current-user.xml" uses absolute path names, therefore when being directed to a server with a different profile path the information cannot be retrieved.
In this case please use the following workaround:
Create a logon script mapping the profile path to a drive, for example "S:". In the "b1-config-path.txt" use "S:\Application Data\SAP\SAP Business One". This will direct SAP Business One to the correct folder.

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