oplock problem

[David Collier-Brown]

Tomas Kuba <tkuba at seznam.cz> wrote:
|                                                            It was 
| possible to start several instances of program on the same computer,
but 
| when we started program on another computer, the program returned
something 
| like "On another computer is running operation that needs exclusive
access 
| to databases. Stop this operation and try to run program once again".
That 
| error message should appear only if somebody is trying to re-index or 
| backup databases.

	Sounds like it's realized there is an oplock being held, and
	that therefor anothe rmachine may have the file cached...

| The only way we were able to run the program on more than one machine
was 
| to set "fake oplocks = yes" which isn't very happy in network
environment. 

	have you tries with oplocks turned off?  That's the "normal" way
	one runs database-like PC apps.

--dave
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