Hi Michael, I suspected as much, having had similarly frustrating things with a Novell Client years ago. I am not sure if Microsoft has a modern day Novell Client, it's not something I work with any more. I have been quite enthused with VDos as a means of overcoming the Win-64 hurdle. It will be interesting to see how it works in conjunction with Netware, once you get this client issue out of the way.
Don Friedman has been having some performance issues with vDos and Win-64 with long reports, have you run long reports under vDos? I do not have any serious (ie paying) uses for DP anymore; so I am only running it as a the database for a web application on a Linux web server for a soccer club communications management, so my reports are all quick ones - you can't leave web users hanging around for long reports. Until vDos it has been annoying when I needed to bring the data offline for maintenance, as I was loading up a VMWare virtual machine to run it, now it is so much easier. But fortunately I have not had any issues with DP. In fact this web application has been running flawlessly since 2006, and at one time, I had 40 current executions of DP, and DP just sailed through with it. I think DP has still got some life in it. I try to replace my PC's about once every 3 years, if they are still in relatively good condition, I set them us as specialist servers rather than junking them or giving them away. Good luck with you Novell issue Bye Brian -----Original Message----- From: Michael Shadel [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, 1 April 2014 9:14 AM To: Brian Hancock; 'DataPerfect Users Discussion Group' Subject: Re: [Dataperf] DP running on win 7 box locks up all other network users Hi Brian Great to here from you, I always read very intently what you have to say in your posts. You should see from the other post we did solve our problem and yes it had to do with the client. We have been runing on xp now for a long time with out any problems except for forgetting to turn caching off once in a while on a rebuild or re-install. but our boxes are getting old and parts are failing so it is time to get new hardware, If the new hardware is as good as the old ones we will be good for another 10 years. By then I hope to retire and the younger generation can figure out what to do then. Thanks Michael Shadel National Contractor Services Corporation DBA Arizona Contractor License Center Utah Contractor License Center, Inc. www.azclc.com On 3/29/2014 12:30 AM, Brian Hancock wrote: > Hi Michael, > > The only DP networking problem I have ever experienced has been on a NetWare > server. The problem was the Netware client, and although there were > configurations such as turning file caching off, I kept finding that I had > duplicate numbers in :IN fields. I had to ditch the Novell Client and I used > the Microsoft Client for NetWare for a while until the next release of the > Novell Client came out, which fixed it up. It was almost a certainty that > Netware wasn't forcing the write of the .STR file, instead caching the > write, and consequently allowing other clients to get the old STR value for > the next :IN. I used some file monitoring software which showed me when the > write was occurring, which was a significant delay after a new :IN was > created. > > I haven't been involved with any Netware issues for about 9 years, but just > thought it worth sharing an old experience. I would try to speak with > Novell support on this. > > Regards > Brian > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Shadel > Sent: Saturday, 29 March 2014 8:30 AM > To: 'DataPerfect Users Discussion Group' > Subject: [Dataperf] DP running on win 7 box locks up all other network users > > I had replied to the comment of: > Did not you see vdos here? > This works fine now! > (but it only went to guus and not the group) > > So I am going to start a whole new question: > > We are running Netware 6.5 on a WAN, 5 locations and about 25 users all on > XP sp3 with netware clients for windows and in preparing for how we are > going to upgrade user desktops we have been testing DP and Shell on some win > 7 boxes, both the 32 bit and 64 bit versions. Also note that with the > netware clients for windows you have to turn of caching on each and every > workstation or the dp database gets corrupted and has to be continually re > indexed, forget to do this on one workstation and you are wondering why am > having to re-index. Turn off caching and we can run months without > re-indexing. Our database currently has 70 some panels with multiple panels > containing over a million records. We have been building and using this > system since 1991. > > We have no trouble running dp and shell on win 7 32 bit natively and with > VDOS on win 7 32 bit and 64 bit. The trouble begins as soon as any win 7 > machine starts using the database all other users get a network busy error > and as soon as the win 7 box disconnects form the database all other users > start working again. When the win 7 box is connected to the database it is > the only one that can work in the database. > > So, there must be some sort of caching or file locking going on with windows > 7 that I do not understand and it does it on the network drives. > > Any suggestion as to what may be causing the problem > > Thank you > Michael Shadel and Brian Finn > > _______________________________________________ > Dataperf mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dataperfect.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dataperf > > _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dataperf
