Thanks, Ken! That helps...I'm thinking a couple of new Netgear NICs would be a cheap test. I'm also going to turn off all power-saving in Win7 and see what that does.
Mike >> And, not to hijack anyone's thread, but just as a head's up >> It may be due to some less-than-mature NIC drivers, but I'm seeing an >> annoying habit of Win7 Pro 32 and 64 to drop network shares....i.e., I >> put DBFs on a network share S: drive that is mapped on each workstation >> to \\SERVERNAME\CDRIVE. I can't get it to mess up consistently, but it >> smells like it has to do with inactivity. In other words, if there's >> been no access to the share in X minute, the share is dropped by either >> my Linux Samba box, or Win 7. Things will be going along fine and >> suddenly an error will pop up >> "c:\data\file.dbf" unavailable...abort, retry, ignore" >> Nothing seems to help so far other than opening a Windows Explorer >> window and accessing the share (which usually shows a red dot on the >> drive icon in the folder listing.) After clicking the share, the red >> mark turns green and all is well as long as the VFP application re-tries >> the access. >> >> The frustrating part is that it's totally inconsistent. > Hi Mike, > > I've been running a Win 7 Ultimate (not "pro") workstation for over a year, > with mapped drives to VFP dbf files stored on a CentOS server using Samba. > I have not seen this problem at all. > > Ken Dibble > www.stic-cil.org > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
