Darryl, Darryl Newberry wrote:
> > Side note on OS's: "sch_user" running Windows 2000 Pro, "pcb_user" running > Windows XP Pro. > I suppose this side note hits the point. Not really sure who to punish for this bug, Protel or �soft! What I can state is that we also work with the ddb structure and the ddb's all are set up for multi user with different privileges. No such problems with this up to now. We all have NT4 on our workstations and a separate NT4 server storing all hot data with daily backup. What I'm missing on the multi user setup is an intelligent file locking feauture to prevent interfering changes to individual files within the ddb. The manual file locking is not what I'm dreaming of - especially when you have to unlock the file for each file save even if you are the user that locked this particular file for exclusive editing. In early P99 versions saving of locked files was possible for the user that locked them. This was lost with one of the early service packs and never brought back even not when I reported this together with some ideas for improving the file locking functionality to protel europe. I did this two or three times by phone and email and besides the "oh, good idea" comment on the phone never got a useful answer. So, long speech short meaning: The Workgroup feauture seems to be another of those promising marketing arguments for the Protel sales people that is not in the main focus of the Protel programmers! Despite this I keep on setting up ddb's as multi user capable hoping the day comes that it really becomes useful! (As long one is able to dream, his soul is living) Emanuel -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% MPL AG www.mpl.ch Emanuel Zimmermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager R&D Phone: +41 (0)56 483 34 34 Taefernstrasse 20 Fax: +41 (0)56 493 30 20 CH-5405 Daettwil %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
