>>I need some way to find out when a network (esp. Win95, NetBeui) user of my VFP .exe dose not exit properly (power-outage, GP fault, etc.) so that I know the next time another user logs on to "clean-up the tables" (pack/reindex/append to new structure).
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>>Anybody got any ideas? Note: you can't rely on the lock status of a record because a Win95 "server", as opposed to NT, does not automatically dissconnet a user/client with open files when that user crashes.
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>Create a log table with 3 fields: UserID, LogIn(DateTimeStamp),
>LogOut(DateTimeStamp). When the user logs in, open the table and detect
>if it's a known user or the one that already used the system at least
>once. If the user is new, - append blank and store his UserID and LogIn
>dateTime stamp. If the user has used the system, - clear his LogOut field
>and store current dateTime stamp. After that close the table. On exit
>of any user fill in their LogOut field. In this situation if any record
>doesn't have a LogOut stamp you know for sure that they didn't exit
>properly. There will be very little concern over this log table and the
>logging function to be for multi-user environment because you will open
>it only for a split of a second and there will be a slim chance that
>more than one user will be attempting to open it at the same time. If you
>really want to know what files were open at the time of crash you can
>expand the structure of this logging mechanism and create one or more
>tables that will hold the file names with the DateTimeStamp as an index
>field. Every time the user goes to any module you log his LogIn value
>into that table(-s), and on exit you delete the corresponding records.
>It worked perfectly for the local University master scheduling program,
>and I was also logging all their actions performed on the data so that
>there was a complete set of information (including time spent in each
>table) for user activities. ...And it's also fun to write :)

How do you detect if the user is still in the system or just logged out improperly?