[RBG7-L] - Re: Network questions

[Bernard Lis]

Marc,
Replace that W98 server ASAP. Even if you have to swap the client machine 
with the server.
I once had a similar problem, always losing the network connection because 
that W98 in a peer-to-peer network is flaky, and when you lose the 
connection, R:Base will still think you are there. I think that was 
Microsofts first attempt at a peer network and they did a crummy job (even 
Lantastic was better at that time)

Bernie Lis
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Hi Emmitt
Would these things make the files act as
if they were read only?
Marc
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From: "Emmitt Dove" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Any number of things involved could be the problem.  W98 as the
server?  Big suspect.  A bad NIC, a bad cable, a bad switch or hub, and 
so
on.
I can't speak to 6.1 since we never used it.
I even had a PC with flaky memory that was corrupting a 5.5 DOS 
database's
file 1.  That diagnosis only took about 3 months ... the memory had bits
that were unstable - they might be 1 when they were supposed to be 0, and
the NMI wouldn't detect it.  The memory just happened to be in the region
where 5.5 stored its cached copy of file 1.  Whenever the system did an
add/update/etc. it would rewrite file 1.  The flipped bits would cause,
for
instance, a character to show up in position 16 or 17 of a table name 
when
the table name was only 8 characters.  That would then cause the table to
not be found when others went looking for data - the name had changed. I
finally noticed a pattern, figured out that bits were getting flipped, 
and
went looking for the troubled PC.  Replaced the RAM, problem solved.

Ask the network guy to step back and take a fresh look without assuming
the
problem isn't his.
>I have a user that is blaming RBase for "locking"
>the data base where they can't get into it.
>
>They have 98 as the server and 2000 as the client.
>They are using 6.1, I haven't got the update finished
>for 7.1.
>
>Today they got an error message saying
>"someone else is connected....." but they
>can't access any of the forms....
>
>Their network guy of course blames the data base
>for locking things up.
>
>I have had a few other offices have this problem
>usually from a crash or whatever and I have them
>use a backup which fixes the problem.
>
>Could this be a RBase issue because 6.1 is too old or
>anything else or is it a Network / Windows problem?
>
>thanks
>Marc
Emmitt Dove
Manager, DairyPak Business Systems
Blue Ridge Paper Products, Inc.
40 Lindeman Drive
Trumbull, CT  06611
(203) 673-2231
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