>>The SMB2 issues in Vista were supposed to be resolved according to this:
>>http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~WindowsVistaFileLockingBug~VFP
>>and this:
>>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935366/en-us
>>
>>Unfortunately, the SMB2 bugs persist. I have written a program that will reproduce the SMB2 bugs. The included program should be run between 2 Vista computers (one acting as the server and sharing the folder to the second). You should see VFP crash within 30 seconds with index corruption and other miscellaneous errors. Now, turn off SMB2 or switch one of the computers to XP and this same program will run without error.
>>
>>Question 1: Can anyone else reproduce this bug (.prg below).
>>Question 2: How do we report the bug to Microsoft?
>
>Thanks for taking the time to build some repro code!
>
>For sure, the first thing you need is confirmation. I wish I could help you but I don't have a suitable environment available.

I guess very few here have the Vista. I've heard this over and over (from myself too), "yeah I have heard of this problem but I don't have a Vista machine at this time".

And it's extremely good that we have the repro code, because we could easily run into the same old game against Windows networks - they work fine for saving a Word document anywhere, so they must work fine for everything else. Except they don't really flawlessly support keeping file handles open for hours. Most of the time they do, but when they don't, you get an invalid handle, and must kill the app, or at least the form.

I've had issues with this ever since the early clashes between the protocols in W98 vs W95, then W2k vs NT4, then XP vs W2k etc. Every now and then there'd be something that perfectly accommodates a short burst of data across the wire, but not quite so when it's a lot of data and has to stay open and keep the handle for a long time.

>I imagine a suitable MVP would be glad to help, but if not there's always Mary Jo Foley < g >

The lady who writes short articles about headlines?