Alan, Totally in agreement with you... the oplocks issue that was sometimes a showstopper isn't required any more.
Dave -----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Alan Bourke Sent: 07 May 2015 13:04 To: profox@leafe.com; profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: Delay in USEing table on network causes errors, using VMs, Win7 I'm not saying there aren't occasional issues, I'm saying that they are the exception. Any sites where I have had problems in the last few years have been fixed by ensuring that everything is service packed up, and that the Enterprise Hotfix Rollup is applied to servers and Windows 7 clients as appropriate. I never touch OpLock settings. You can't disable OpLocks anyway unless you knock everything back to SMB1,. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Thu, 7 May 2015, at 12:06 PM, Fernando D. Bozzo wrote: > Hi Alan: > > I'm not the only that have this problems, and we don't use win7 as > servers, I'm talking about a big infrastructure of 100's of virtual > servers with windows 2003, 2008 and 2012, and thousands of PC's > (virtual and phisical > ) > with users grouped up 50 concurrent in various Citrix servers. > > Over the web there are many reporting problems with network acceses to > files like vfp and other apps. > > The hotfix you mention does resolve all this problems with smb2/3? > Because > configuring smb1 is not an option on our networks, and I'm not admin > > There are some whitepapers explaining the problem with oplocks El > 07/05/2015 09:53, "Alan Bourke" <alanpbou...@fastmail.fm> escribió: > > > > If you are going to use network shares for the tables, just be > > > care with the combination of client OS and server OS, because any > > > combination starting with Win7->Win7 or higher, will cause corruption > > > problems. > > > > Sorry but that's just not true in the general case. We have hundreds > > of sites where this is NOT the case. It's true that sometimes > > problems occur like the CDX corruption issue with SMB2 that cropped > > up in the early days of Windows 7, normally these can be worked > > around and are later hot-fixed out by Microsoft. I have found that > > the Windows 7 and Windows 8 combination with Server 2012 is > > extremely reliable in terms of DBF files. > > > > > why everytime more people is staying away from DBFs and migrate to > > > a client-server database (MySql, MariaDB, Oracle, SqlServer, etc) > > > > Having said the above, in general it is indeed IMO a good idea these > > days to use a dedicated database server like those you mention, but > > I would do it for reasons of scalability, security, ease of backup > > and so on. > > > > -- > > Alan Bourke > > alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/18725b8cd2d5d247873a2baf401d4ab246b32...@ex2010-a-fpl.fpl.LOCAL ** 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.
