Nikola Vanevski wrote:
Ok, I'm sure you've answered this more then once, but still here it is : I have a FoxPro 2.0 for Lan application that used to run on DOS boxes connected to a Novell server (and of course with Novel client). Both FoxPro .exe, .prg and database/index files reside on the shared disk, and the client only maps a shared drive and starts the FoxPro application from there. Due to some licensing issues, I have decided to move the application on a Linux server with Samba shared drive and connect the DOS machines using the Microsoft Network Client 3.0 (disks generated by NT4 server). Here are the problems I encountered :
1. FoxPro executable (FOXL.EXE) would not start - it would hang on the introduction screen. It would, however, start from the local disk and open the database filed residing on the shared drive - albeit slow. I have turned off the strict locking and turned on the oplocks, but it didn't help. What helped was turning the locks off completely - FoxPro then started to run from the network disk. What happened next is very interesting - I turned locks on back again and restarted smbd, and Fox continued to run! This seems to have solved the problem with running the executable itself, but I don't know if I should think of it as solved. Any further suggestions on this?
2. Allthough file name handling is set to "case insensitive", FoxPro+Samba combination seems to intruduce some case sensitivity - for example, "compile *.prg" behaves differently from "compile *.PRG" - the former say that files are not found, but the latter compiles them without errors. Any suggestions on this too?
3. And, as always, the speed problem. Inserting records into a DBF database via the FoxPro application is painfully slow - more then one second per record. I have seen various client tuning tips, but most of them were using Windows registry - none covered DOS networking client. Can you help me with this?
Thanks in advance !!
Nino
Please read: http://www.convert2samba.com/Tips&Tricks/Samba/Oplocks.htm
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