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> When they attempted this Thursday night they had not shut 
> down each client but tell me they did ensure each client was 
> either out of the fP application completely or sitting on an 
> fP menu.  So the difference was shutting the client down and 
> not restarting until the problem was resolved.  Regarding 
> this network, we have been having DKNY problems for the past 
> several weeks on an index that has not been modified for 
> approximately 18 months.  The fP app. that writes this index 
> has also not been modified in that time frame.  Now, most 
> days we have to have everyone exit fP and rebuild this index 
> once per day.  We have noticed that when we have everyone 
> "supposedly" shutdown their client (not just exit fP) we will 
> still see 20-40 users with files open on the fP share.  We 
> have begun to disable the share before performing our index 
> rebuild.  fP is installed on the server (Windows 2000 
> Advanced Server) and p.exe is run on the client from the 
> mapped drive to the server.  I am beginning
>   to think the clients (WINXP PRO & WIN2000 clients plus two 
> WIN98SE clients) are the problem (broken) and wonder if 
> accessing fP via Terminal Services or Citrix on the server would help.
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Don Coleman   

I have one client using terminal sever for outside users to access filePro.
This works rather well.  However, I would strongly suggest that the local
connection problems be solved before going to terminal server.  

There is also the expense of getting terminal server licenses for all of the
users who will be using it.  Also, this may require a server(s) upgrade
depending on the number of users.  Also, if users have local printers, this
is a problem with terminal server even with a redirect.  The best solution
seems to this printing issue with terminal server is Printwizard server;
although I haven't tested this as yet.  The problem is how terminal server
redirects print jobs to the local printer.

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting