I'll try that next time I'm out at the client site.
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At 08:02 PM 4/26/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Hmmmmm.....just a thought. What do you suppose would happen if, after
>the ghost users appear, you disconnected everybody, and then copied the
>database from the server to a local station, and tried to run the
>database on the stand alone station? I use Novell 4.11 all the time,
>and can't figure out what kind of influence it could have on Rbase after
>all stations have disconnected.
>
>Mike Sinclair
>
>Bernie Corrigan wrote:
>>
>> The problem does not go away when all users are disconnected. The problem
>> also doesn't go away when everybody logs off the Novell server. The problem
>> (the ghost users and locks) only goes away when we reboot the server. If
>> Novell is hanging onto the ghost users and locks I think we should be able
>> to see them with Monitor which we cannot.
>>
>> _______________________________________
>> At 07:25 PM 4/26/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>> >Question......what makes you think that it is Novell that is hanging on
>> >to the ghost users, rather than Rbase locking the tables as if the User
>> >were still connected? Does the problem go away if you disconnect all
>> >users by "brute force" (booting all stations, but leaving the Server
>> >alone)?
>> >
>> >Mike Sinclair
>> >
>> >
>> >Bernie Corrigan wrote:
>> >>
>> >> This is a replay of a message I posted in December of 2000. The ghost
user
>> >> problem with RBase for Windows 6.5+ has has continued. Whenever a user
>> >> crashes or exits improperly, say by turning off a machine
accidentally, that
>> >> user remains connected to the database until the server is rebooted. This
>> >> is on Novell 4.11. We wind up with a gradually increasing number of
>> >> connected users and locked tables as this process continues through time.
>> >> Is there any way to disconnect the users.
>> >>
>> >> Novell Monitor does not show the connections. According to Monitor no one
>> >> is using the R:Base files who is not currently really connected so Monitor
>> >> can't be used to get rid of them. It was my understanding that Novell is
>> >> supposed to get rid of such connections/locks after about 10 minutes
if the
>> >> user has gone away. Is there some setting I should be looking at that
would
>> >> cause Novell not to do this?
>> >
>> >
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