>>At one point I was going to get serious about testing for this bug. I went as far as setting up a couple of Win7 machines, ran Brandon Harker's test code for a while but the error didn't show up. It seems to require significant load to manifest. It would be great to have a reliable test to check 2.0, 2.1, 3.0, 3.02 and future versions.
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>>OTOH with free or cheap DB backends available the use cases for networked DBFs are getting fewer and fewer.
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>SMB2 has, IMO, effectively killed the file sharing paradigm. I'd rather invest a couple of weeks to make sure my app works with the currently available DB than looking for patches to patch what Microsoft just won't.
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>Specially in an area where you don't have the freedom to change the settings and be sure they won't be overwritten on next reboot/update/full moon.
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>I just wonder how are the Access, Paradox, Clarion and other guys coping with this. I guess they also have their ways to hook into ODBC.

Windows 8 and Server 2012 use SMB 3.0 . I thought somebody here did some testing with this?