Regarding my client who recently "upgraded" to all Win98
workstations on a Win2000 network. They had a connection
problem (subsequently solved) but the chain of events seems
very unlikely.
The first user to connect to the database minimized it. He
then, of course, tried to open another copy (RBDos6.1), got
an error message, kept it on the screen and didn't tell others.
Somewhere else the next person tried to connect and couldn't.
When I dialed in and tried to connect I got the message "invalid
server6.rbg file for this database". I replaced the file with
a backup copy, got the same error message. When I did an autochk,
I got these messages:
Error reading the table list
Unable to open database file #4
I've never heard of the 1st message before. I did an 'attrib -r'
on the files, no difference. Put the server6.rbg back to the way
it was. Eventually someone found the first user's error message,
exited out of that session of RBase, found his minimized copy
and exited out of that. Now everyone can get back in, including
him.
I assume the 2 autochk messages are because a copy of RBase was
open? But it really seems like the moment he tried to open a second
copy, everything got corrupted for anyone else to log in. Makes
no sense.... Anyone experience a similar thing?
Karen
