Troubles with File-/Record locking from Windows clients...

[Paul Sherwin]

>Date:   Fri, 24 Sep 1999 15:46:03 +0200
>From:   Rainer Hantsch <office at hantsch.co.at>
>
>While my application worked fine in DOS with NEXOS (it is 100% MS Network
>compatible), I get biggest troubles with Win95 and Samba(1.9.18p8), because
>the data files stay permanently locked by that application which opens them
>first. All other clients have no access.

Check the version of VREDIR.VXD you have. The Windows network redirecter
has had zillions of bugs through many versions. I wasted hours trying to
get locking to work with 4.00.955. 4.00.1111 seems to be OK but I believe
the most recent version is 4.00.1116. You can download an update from

http://support.microsoft.com/download/support/mslfiles/vrdrupd.exe

This may not be your problem but you should check it out before doing
anything else.

Best regards, Paul

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