Lawrence, just don't believe the story about the 6 handles.
We use above 200 handles in 100+ user systems, and there isn't a problem with it.

When the workstations are NT (as well), I don't think you even can adjust the max number of handles. W95 etc. it can, and it won't be Fox destroying things. However, when some other app doesn't anticipate on too few handles properly ...

Also note that if too few handles were the issue, it would be just your VFP7 users screeming to you first. Well, do they ?

HTH,
Peter


>Hi all,
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>I just rewrote a FPD2.6 application in VFP7. It is running on a small network with NT4 server and various Win versions on the 10 or so workstations.
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>My client reports odd loss of directory names/priveleges, and even apparent magical renaming of network folders. Their network guy claims this is a "known issue file handle issue with NT4 and database tables" and that I should try not to open more than 6 files handles at a time. I'm figuring "right..."
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>Not being a network guy myself, can anyone shed light on NT4 file handling? I've seen a Novell network need its default max file handles increased for one of my apps, but never heard of NT problems like this. I'm also suspicious that NT4 didn't throw some sort of visible error if it was really maxing out on its file handles.
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>TIA,