John,
I don't doubt your experience for a second, but I've gotta go with it being reasonable in a SMALL environment.
I would hate to see anyone cut off one avenue of exploitation for VFP just because of some ill-considered statement.
Cheers (yes, I'll be there soon)
Jim N
>Hiya Jim --
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>(See you at conference today?) Anyway.....
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>>That seems an odd statement, Mark.
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>>I wonder why MS gave Win95 that ability to do it if it "wasn't really meqnt to be used as an application server"???
>>And would that still be your opinion if the person trying to do so said that they *DID* run nothing else of consequence on the machine acting as "server"?
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>A reply to your post from someone else shared my sentiments...Win95 peer-to-peer is more designed for workgroup type stuff. Common documents and other single, contiguous file-sharing. A database/table is one physical file being shared by multiple people who are writing *portions* of the file.
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>I have run into monster problems with buffered tables on a peer-to-peer Win95 LAN. Problems I don't run into with WinNT, Novell, et al.
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>So...it's not a question of questioning what Win95 was designed to do...it's a situation where there *is* a problem and that you have to workaround.
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>I think there is a KB article on this topic...I'll try to find it and post a followup
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