Read posts not remembered between computers

Can you please tell me how I can adjust this ? or do i need to update it for this not to occur anymore.

I have  customer that says that forums is not remembering the last posts his read on the forums. So if he logs onto different computers the information about what he has read is lost.  

Is their a setting i need to adjust ?

So are you saying that when I log into a different computer (2nd computer) .. and 20 minutes have passed .. all the read posts that were processed in my previous session (1st computer) should remain as read ..

My customer is saying that this is not the case .. as soon as he logs onto a different computer the forum forgets the read posts from previous computer.  The session should be controlled by the central server not a users PC.

segax wrote: So are you saying that when I log into a different computer (2nd computer) .. and 20 minutes have passed .. all the read posts that were processed in my previous session (1st computer) should remain as read .. My customer is saying that this is not the case .. as soon as he logs onto a different computer the forum forgets the read posts from previous computer.  The session should be controlled by the central server not a users PC.

Funny, I just had the same "complaint".
A forum member is at work, logged in and reading messages from his work computer over his lunch hour. That's computer 1. At 2pm, he logs off, then at 4 he drives home, logs in on his home computer, and what he sees are messages since his last stint on THAT computer, his home computer. Not since he was logged in and reading at work. So he sees messages that were new since last night, not 2pm that day when he read them at work.
I've seen similar - it looses track between sessions - suddenly I find that I am being shown messages since "last night" not since 4 hours ago.
It usually works for me, but I check between 3 different computers and if I log out of one at 4pm, the log in an hour later at home, it NORMALLY shows me messages since 4pm. HOWEVER, at times, it shows me messages since my last login on THAT computer, not since 4pm, or even "yesterday". somehow these are getting lost......
I've found that if I am logged in, and then I find myself suddenly logged out (it happens a lot) that when I login again, I get no new messages as it shows since the time I was kicked off. I think at least once every two days or so, sometimes 2 or 3 times a day, I get logged off through no action of my own, and it totally messes with the "last visit" times.

If you are using multiple computers then when you move between computers you should always logout and then login on the new computer.

This way the forum will be able to get the last active date from your account in the database rather then the cookie. This should make the unread/read post data more accurate as this uses the last active date to collect the data.