> I would like to know if anybody has experienced a problem with Windows 2000
> server and Rbase in the mutil user mode.  It seems that when I have one user
> logged in the system runs fine but if more than one person is logged in the
> system runs extremely slow.

Yes, such a problem exists.  The problem is related to the Windows networking
scheme and affects some, but not all, installations.  It depends on a number of
factors and, to the best of my knowledge, no one ever figured out exactly when
the problem would occur.

When the problem _does_ occur, it affects all programs that use shared access
to files on the server.  Thus, you see the same thing happening in Access,
Foxpro, and so on.  If you search newsgroups, you will find the occasional user
of those programs asking the same question you are.

The problem is that when the necessary conditions exist and files are opened in
shared mode the network traffic increases by close to 100 times.

Unfortunately, I don't know of any solution.  I believe that whatever the
underlying conditions are, one constant is always that Windows 2000 Server is
involved on the server end -- if you have another machine that can host the
database files that may be the quickest work around for you.

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