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VFP and Novell 5
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03/05/2000 22:59:26
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Troubleshooting
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00365538
Message ID:
00365935
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13
>Anyone heard of or had any problems with VFP data on Novell 5 servers? Recently 2 very odd things have happened. One customer has had all the DBFs deleted on 3 different occasions. Fortunately, Novell's salvage recovered them. Although a backup was available, salvage saved a full day's work.
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>On another customer's system, all records in 1 specific table have been deleted on 2 occasions. Those were recoverd with simple RECALL ALL.
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>Keep in mind the following factors --
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>1. There is no code in any app that would cause this behavior.
>2. These apps are running on about 80 different customer's systems.
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>All but 2 or 3 use Novell version 3 or 4 and have never had these problems. The 2 problem children run Novell 5.

SWAG - I'd look at the NetWare Client32 configuration of the workstations.
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