>One thing that helped in DOS days was to open the same app and same form (with the same tables) on another workstation, update some little bit of something (usually deleting or adding a final period in a comment field somewhere), and then regularly closing the app. It usually caused the buffers to be refreshed & flushed on the server, and even the data from the locked station were saved (at least to some point - never paid too much attention to that). It may still work.


Thanks, Dragan. That sounds like a most interesting suggestion. I will definitely try it on the next lockup.

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>I think Aleksei Bulgakov has found a way to corrupt indexes if the tables were open read-only in the default datasession, and read-write in form's data session. The indexes were actually OK, except for the new records not showing in them. One thing to try is to remove the NOUP clause (or ReadOnly setting) on the tables in the DS 1, if they are set so.

Yeah, I ran into this one last winter. All of the tables in DS1 are now opened read-write.

Based on my research here and in other forums, the main problem seems to be the combination of Windows 95/98 + Novell Client 32 + VFP. These combinations have been recommended:

1) Windows NT + Novell Client 32 + VFP

2) Windows 95/98 + MS Client for Netware + VFP


Option 1) would cost the client $6000 to $15000 (30 NT licenses plus assorted ram and processor upgrades) so is not favored here.

Option 2) will be investigated immediately. It's a PITA though, because the MS client doesn't see the NDS printers.

If any one has suggestions for making the MS client work better with Novell Directory Services I would love to hear them.


Peter