On Sat, 08 Jan 2011 12:33 -0500, "Garrett Fitzgerald" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 03:09, Alan Bourke <[email protected]> > wrote: > > If the server is Windows 2008 you will want to turn off SMB2 on it. > > Why's that? I have a client who's reporting slower performance on > their newer Win7 machines than their older WinXP machines, but I don't > want to just tweak random settings without knowing how come. :-)
There is a recognised issue with index corruption with Windows 7 clients accessing DBF files (and Access databases and other things) from shared locations on Windows Server 2008. We have encountered this on numerous sites. SMB2 is the new version of Microsoft's network transport which came in with Vista. By default and Vista or 7 clients connected to Server 2008 will use SMB2. XP will use SMB1. The solution to the index corruption is to turn off SMB2 on the server. Unless you have a huge network with a lot of traffic this will make no difference whatsoever to network performance IMO. This may or may not address any speed problems but it will stop or prevent crashes due to corrupt indexes. On the speed problem side we have had various reports of this as well, and if you look around there are quite a few reports of it not necessarily involving VFP. So that one may require a bit more digging. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
