Marcos:
I don't have experience in freedos, but i use a metwork for 3 years whith
Windows server 2003 (server) and 15 pc's with Xp, one of data base have more
than 140,000 records and no have problem in sharing.
think to migrate to server 2003 and XP
regards
Juan a. Salhus
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De: Eric Donn <[email protected]>
Para: [email protected]
Enviado: Jueves 14 de junio de 2012 22:10
Asunto: [Dataperf] FW: Networking DP
Hi Marcos,
Fixing all computer issues starts with the basics first. i.e. hardware >
system > networking > software
"General failure reading drive C" means exactly that... I would be checking
the C drive for:
Have you got enough free space on the C: Drive or wherever the temp files that
DP creates live
Do you have bad sectors on the disk - Run chkdsk which for freedos is chkdsk c:
/f
BUT if the above is ok, it is most likely: the config.sys file and the
statement files=n
"where n is the number of files, in the range 8-255. The default setting is 8,
but a good number for most modern systems is 20 - 40.
Some programs may need a higher setting to function correctly; such programs
will usually give the value that is needed in their documentation."
Set it to at least 40 (files=40)
Regards
Eric Donn
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
Sent: 15 June 2012 09:37
To: DataPerfect Users Discussion Group
Subject: [Dataperf] Networking DP
Hi,
The DP database I developed for the public Health Center in my neighbourhood
has been running perfectly for 6 years.
Users now decided to expand the number of computers from 4 to 8, and connect
them all into a network.
I was very confident that the network would run smoothly because of previous
experience: for about 3 years we also had computers networked in pairs, and
they ran all day long, every day, without a single complaint.
This is in real hardware -- not virtualized --, mostly early Pentiums donated
to us. The operating system is FreeDOS, which I also use at home for nearly all
my work. The network software is MS-Client.
Trouble started three days ago. We have to add 15,000 new records, so I again
networked a pair of computers in order to allow two persons to work
simultaneously.
The network does work, but it is in a very fragile condition. As soon as the
two people start using the database more intensively, say, doing lots of
lookups, the whole system crashes -- server and client. The server error
message is "General failure reading drive C", which I suppose is from FreeDOS.
In the client it is DataPerfect error # 114.
I will ask the FreeDOS users group about that, but before writing to them I
wanted to check with the DataPerfect group in order to know exactly what we can
expect from networked DP databases.
So my basic questions today are: Assuming a network is working properly, can we
use DataPerfect any way we like? Can two or more users, say, navigate the
lookups at will, as quickly as they like? Or is there any limitation?
The only difference I can think of between the networks that worked well for
years and today's is that the former were used basically by a doctor at the
office and his/her assistant at the reception desk, which is a light load on
the system, whereas today we are trying to use both machines intensively.
Any comments will be much appreciated.
Marcos
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Campinas, Brazil
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