Install the Microsoft Enterprise Hotfix Rollup on the server (and any Win 7 clients if possible).
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2775511 You don't need to turn off SMB2 or faff with caching. And make sure the Indexing Service is ignoring the application data location. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Fri, 18 Sep 2015, at 06:22 PM, Desmond Lloyd wrote: > Have a "legacy" VFP6 application that has been running fine on Server > 2008 > machine. We have recently moved the application to a VMware 2012 > server. Beyond some initial issues with data file sizes and some slower > responses. (corrected by reducing the size of some of the most used > files) > it has been fine. > > However, here lately (past few weeks) I have been running into some > issues with: > > 1.) Error Reading file when attempting to use a dbf. Very, very > intermittent and to only some users. (like one or two) > 2.) Possible record locking issues. In some parts of the application > there are manual locks and unlocks on records, otherwise I let VFP do > all > the work. We have some problems with "record is in use by another" in > the > past (even on the 2008 server), but these seem to be growing. > 3.) Get this, "....has attempted to write to a file that is marked > READ > ONLY..." Had this happen a few weeks ago. Sure enough I couldn't write > to > it, so I recreated it. All was good until today when someone got the > same > message, but in this case the file is fine... > > Did some searching and found references to GPF errors being created by > VFP6 > in a VMware environment, we do not seem to be experiencing those. > (thankfully) > > Has anyone seen this in a VMware environment before? If so were you able > to correct. Am I overreacting? > > This has me baffled... (among other things) > > Thank You, > Desmond > > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > multipart/alternative > text/plain (text body -- kept) > text/html > --- > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] 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/1442602846.1333385.387578305.6dbad...@webmail.messagingengine.com ** 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.
