similar to: Samba and Foxpro for Unix

Ok, I'm sure you've answered this more then once, but still here it is : I have a FoxPro 2.0 for Lan application that used to run on DOS boxes connected to a Novell server (and of course with Novel client). Both FoxPro .exe, .prg and database/index files reside on the shared disk, and the client only maps a shared drive and starts the FoxPro application from there. Due to some

Hi, I just install 2.2.2 in a Red Hat 7.2 with kernel 2.4.16 on ext 3 + lvm. The problem are the locks!!!!!! I've 5 users working in .dbf + cdx (foxpro) files with an 16 bits application. It accesses to the files via DAO 2.0. A lot of times in the days the users gets 'currently locked' messages when the application open the dbf's files with read only access! I desactivated the

Hi all... Last monday i migrated form novell 4.0 to Samba 3.0 PDC. The server acts as a file server for 30 workstations (Win2000) using an aplicattion that combines clipper (with .dbf files) and delphi (uses paradox .px and .db). Its perfomance has been very poor since i changed the server. PLEASE HELP ME, since its in production and i really don know what to do. thanks, sebastian davancens

Hi, could someone please give me the correct entries for using Foxpro with a samba share. I tried everything I can think of in the smb.conf but I am always confronted with locking problems and multiuser issues: Upgraded to version 2.2.5 smb.conf (among other things of course) oplocks=off lock spin count = 3 lock spin time = 25 locking=yes Is there anything you can tell me. It is very urgent and

Hello, and Happy News Year from France J Since 4 month I'm trying to configure Samba 3 on an Ubuntu server 10 to replace a W2k server. The client software is used over Windows XP vista and seven. This software use smb for a flat file (.dbf) share for 9 users the new server is more powerful the old one but I think that the Oplocks options are causing high latencies in the request.

I install Wine on Ubuntu 9.04, i have errors when run MS foxpro : namhv at ubuntu:/media/disk/ktgd$ wine foxprox.exe fixme:gdi:get_default_fonts unhandled charset 0x000000a3 - use ANSI_CHARSET for default stock objects err:int:DOSVM_Int15Handler int15: unknown/not implemented parameters: int15: AX 2403, BX e6f5, CX 0c6c, DX 00fc, SI 0cfe, DI 571e, DS 199b, ES f000 err:int:DOSVM_Int2fHandler

Using foxpro database application which should copy some files L1_*.dbf from a server location to the local c:\TEMP directory, but just get invalid name, perhaps I am not setting something correctly in winecfg? Here is WINEDEBUG output: 001b:Ret KERNEL32.WriteFile() retval=00000001 ret=7ea97433 001b:Call

Hi All, scenario: Samba Version 2.2.8a-UL running on Suse Linux Enterprise 8 Kernel Version 2.4.21-241-smp as Server Windows 2000 SP4 as Client Trying to import a MS-Foxpro file into MS-ACCESS. MS-Foxpro File residing on Samba Server. The Foxpro filename is 'projects.dbf'. During import MS-Access tries to also open a non existent file 'projects.inf' depending on the path in

Dear R user, I am running R under Windows 2000. I am looking for a routine for importing - shape files (ESRI) into R - dbase files (FOXPRO) into R and I am looking for time-space models for description and prediction of Bernoulli-, Binomial- and Poissonvaraibles. Thank's a lot for a reply. Sincerely yours, Ekkehardt Altpeter Swiss Federal Office of Public

Hi List, Second attempt to get this issue diagnosed and solved. Samba Version 3.0.28el4 CentOS 4.7 The behavior is as follows when accessing Fox Pro dbf files. Users can access the files through the Fox Pro command interface without issues,when they choose a graphical environment (windows explore of the windows file open gui) the system returns an access denied message on the first

I am failing to lock a database file on a unix server (Solaris486) when the file lock request is sent from Visual Foxpro on Windows 95. Any suggestions on testing procedures, or even a solution?? Please feel free to assume that I don't know anything about file locks! I don't even know how Visual Foxpro attempts to lock a file. Would the Foxpro lock be recognised by any application?

Is Samba (1.19) incompatible with FoxPro? We have tried to network a database package (FoxPro is the underlying DBMS) by putting it in a Samba share. The database starts up and you can browse the tables, but it looks as though FoxPro's record locking system causes the entire share to be locked, so that further access to the shared drive (both in FoxPro and in the Windows98 Explorer) is

Hello for all ! We use a samba server 2.2.1a with conectiva 7 [ kernel 2.4.18] and have the most important system of enterprise in clipper. In begin we have many problems with index corruption and clipper system freezes Then we turned off oplocks and level2oplocks and found peace. But sometimes the system until freeze in one station and this freeze others stations too. When clipper system is

Hello, I am trying to run a simple foxpro application. All the program does is look up serial numbers and then look up pictures from an image directory. The directory structure looks like this: FOXUSER.DBF INTERCHANGE.CDX interchange.exe irunin.lng FOXUSER.FPT INTERCHANGE.CRB irunin.dat sierra.ico Images INTERCHANGE.DBF irunin.ini The program installs correctly; however, the

Hi. I start to manage small network with about twenty workstation. There is an old DELL with Novell 3 as file server and spooler for four printers. Clients (Win98 and WinXP) runs dos applications written in clipper and foxpro. Everything works fine, but... :) I want to migrate file server and spooler in to new server with RHEL5. Cups works fine, but Samba not. DOS apps randomly hangs or freeze for

Hi, First of all, apologies if I'm not posting this in the correct place. I'm successfully running Microsoft Visual Foxpro 7 under Wine, however I needed to use the native versions of shlwapi and oleaut32. There is a major problem still, however, and that is that foxpro will freeze as soon as I use the mouse to click in certain controls (the command window, a textbox, an edit box,

Hi, I am facing a problem with my application. It uses a windows share to give access to a buch of dbf (I use FoxPro) files. When I access it alone (via the share) everything runs fine but when two users try both face a strange slowdown. The strange part is that it used to be fast even with dozens of users. It started to behave strangly a few days ago and I've tried everything, including

Ok so maybe someone can explain this to me. I've been banging my head against the wall on this one for several weeks now and the powers that be are starting to get a little impatient. What we've got is an old FoxPro application, the FoxPro .dbf's being stored on a Linux fileserver using Samba (Fedora 3 currently, using Fedora 5 on the new test server). We're having speed

hi all, i am having problems on how to install foxpro on ubuntu. i have an ubuntu partition in my notebook, the other is windows xp. i have wine in my ubuntu. i also have the foxpro installer copied in my ubuntu. but I dont know my next step because it always hangs. please help. i know we can do it! :D

I'd like very much to be able to run "The Master Genealogist" under Wine. TMG is a MS Visual Foxpro application for genealogy database work. On my Kubuntu 6.10 system I have successfully downloaded and installed Wine 0.9.30, and then installed TMG ver. 6 including updates to 6.12, the current version. During TMG installation, there was a problem with a lack of