On Tuesday of this week, my customer was using an application that had been working without error for the last two years. On Wednesday, when the application is started from a desktop icon that points to the startup directory on the server and the designated *.dat startup file, Rbase craps out with a system file error(their description, not mine). The server is NT4, the workstation(s) is/are Win98 boxes. You can start RBase successfully if the startup folder is located on a local drive or in the root of any share on the server, but if you attempt to start it in any subfolder it craps out. If you start on the local drive, then use object mgr to navigate to the server/subfolder where the datafiles reside, then run the app, it runs ok. I have had the sysAdmin (person with admin priv) take ownership of the folder where the datafiles reside and reset the permissions and security on the files and all subfolders, just in case the security database was a little fuzzy ( I have had this happen only once in 5 years with NT4). This produced no joy. I had them create another folder from scratch and copy all the contents of the original into it with the same result. It is behaving like it is a security/permission issue because the only NT4 workstation on the network can start the app and run it from the desktop icon without error. It is set up as a "trusted" machine in the domain, so that could be a factor. I have done most everything I can from here, but before I trek to their site, I thought I would poll the list to see if anyone had experienced this anomaly before.
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