No, it does not. In fact, one way to get around the issue when using dbf's is to put the users on a terminal services/citrix app server with the dbf's on the same server. Only works to the number of users the one server can hold. Beyond that, it's time to move to sql server.

>But OpLocks does play a role with multiple processes of 1 machine hitting the same file ?
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>>SMB is used only for network communications.
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>>If the data is on an app server, there are no network communications, so smb is not an issue.
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>>Hank
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>>>>>>>A while back Brandon Harker posted some repro code here. I set up a test between a couple of Win7 computers, ran it for a while but the error did not show up.
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>>>>>>>I seem to recall someone saying the test has to be run for some time, under considerable load for the problem to manifest.
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>>>>>>FYI - That code I wrote would expose the SMB2 ICE error in under 30 seconds every time I ran it. In most cases it would bonk in less than 10 seconds.
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>>>>>Could you provide a link?
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>>>>Thread ID: 1430067
>>>>Message ID: 1430067
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>>>Thank you.
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>>>What I'm not clear with is, does this happen if the VFP runs on this server as a terminal session too? Or is there an other mechanism to share the data?
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>>>Lutz