I've not seen this behavior, but it sounds like something in the FoxPro application is opening the DB exclusively. Are you certain that this is not happening?
>We have a VFP 9.0 application that runs on a Citrix server. It is updated regularly by a Lotus Notes application.
>The database is foxpro. Lotus notes uses an ODBC connection to update it.
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>When someone is logged onto the foxpro application, and tries to update the database from the lotus notes application, they get locked out and the database is not updated.
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>When someone is NOT logged onto the foxpro application, and they try to update the database from lotus notes, it all works fine.
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>Has anyone else had a similar problem?
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>Thank you in advance,
>Laurie Schlitt
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