Win Server Runtime Problems

charles day daychls at verizon.net
Thu Jan 13 07:05:21 PST 2005


Hi Linda,

Linda Hapner wrote:

>I have a client using the runtime version of filepro on his windows network.  The boss on the server and one employee are all that use the files.  Something odd is happening, and I can't figure out why.  Although working just fine before, all of a sudden the menus on the server just sit there and blink at you for every option (dclerk and dreport).  The employee that is connected has no problems. 
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Sounds to me that perhaps the  FPdata variable or one of the variables 
in the server batch file has been changed? 

>I thought maybe the fp and filepro directories needed to be set to share, but according to my notes, they did not need to be set up for sharing.
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If not before, why now?

>The only thing odd that I saw was that all the  .prc   files are noted as "palm files" on the server -- but they still work just fine for the other workstation.
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>The bosses son was working on the server since I was there last, but I don't see that he did anything to block the filepro access.
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Is the son one of the thousands who preach that a non GUI program is not 
a windows program?

Charlie Day


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