Well, I guess I'm a bit late responding to this. Sorry, I'm not on the UT all that much. UPS problem? Sounds unlikely to me, but stranger things have happened I guess. Power problems can cause weird errors, so I guess it would be good to check it.

How to set the total number of files each user is allowed to open? Good question. Since Win 3.1 went away, this has become less of an issue, but maybe it's something to stay aware of. Is there a limit in Win 95, 98, 2K, or XP? I don't know, off-hand. Unfortunately, in this situation where I'm having the problem I mentioned, the user still has some Win 95 boxes. Scary. I haven't tracked down a solution yet. I'm still suspicious about network glitches, but that's so hard to nail down.

Thanks for your reply and good luck with your issue.

Russell


>I have seen this type of trouble as well as described in previous post as described again here :
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>Our executable will stop responding and then if you wait for it it will finally come back 1-2 mins later and report a file acces denied error and its always a cdx or fpt or bak file ? The code is trying to open dbfs on a file server that everyong has r/w access to who uses the program.
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>This happens with no regularity or pattern but when it happens to one person usually others will also have it happen to them at the same time but with different files !
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>I saw a similar thread in reference to windows 9x peer2peer but this is Win2000 Server SP2 !!
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>Does this sound like a file handles issue ?
>How do you (if you do) set the total # of files each user is allowed to open ?
>How do you (if you do) set the total # of files the server itself can provide handles for ?
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>Someone suggested that it could be a UPS problem in that the voltage coming out the outlet is less than 110. Going to check the voltage and install new ups to see if this problem goes away .
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>HTH
>Greg