Laurie I've been waiting for someone more clued-up to reply - but in their absence this is something to try, in case you haven't already done so.
Try setting the NETDIR on both machines EITHER using UNC references OR by mapping to the same drive letter on each machine and using that. The best reference that I have found for this stuff is TI1437D.txt on the Borland site. HTISH Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Multiple recipients of list delphi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 8:37 AM Subject: [DUG]: peer-to-peer woes > I have been struggling to make a system reliable (index out of date, etc) on > two machines that are connected peer-to-peer. > > I have the computer with the data sharing its data directory and using this > also as the NET DIR > > The client machine has its NET DIR pointing at the other machine, same > directory as above. The alias also points there. > > Everything works fine, if slowly on the client machine, but this is with LOCAL > SHARE set to false. Hence the index problems... > > If I set LOCAL SHARE on the machine that has the data to TRUE, then I can run > either application, but not both at the same time. I get a "Directory is > controlled by another .NET file" error... > > I thought this was going to be simple. What the heck is happening? > > Laurie.. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - > New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz > To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with body of "unsubscribe delphi" > Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe delphi" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/
