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    Here's a good one. No access after joining a domai

    I have a client that uses an application to run their business which is built on Alpha5 version4.

    Currently the network is based on a Windows 2000 server with 15 windows 98 machines. All the windows 98 machines are part of the domain and can use the databases perfectly well.

    I tried installing a Windows 2000 machine as the Windows 98 ones have become troublesome and they are being used quite hard which is causing all sorts of problems. Each time you add a windows 2000 or windows XP machine to the network it cannot access the databases and either reports it cannot save or open the file.

    I have been through share permissions and file and folder permissions and have applied full control to the everyone group at share, folder and file level. As I was testing using the administrator account so I specifically added the administrator account. I also added domain users which has full control permissions. In windows you can map drives to the database, you can see them and you can double click on the database....but the application appears not to be able to open the file.

    I have now added the specific user account, the everyone group, domain users and the specific computer account and given tham all full control permissions. It still will not work. I do not have any technical knowledge of the structure and operation of this product but it seems crazy that as soon as I join one of these NT based computers to the domain the database will not work.

    I'd like to ask if anyone else has ever seen this and how to get around it?

    Any help is appreciated.

    Regards.

    Mark Stringer
    Simplest it Ltd.
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    RE: Here's a good one. No access after joining a d

    Mark,

    Is it possible you have custom startup code in your databases that is causing the difficulty?

    Is it possible you've forgotten to network optimize the new workstations?

    If you put a sample database (say the Invoice app that ships with A5V4) on the server, can the new Win2k workstations open it across the network?

    -- tom

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      RE: Here's a good one. No access after joining a d

      tom, I wish I could answer your questions. The application has been developed by an interal member of staff and beause of office politics, only god and him know the workings of the database and the security to access it. I have had to rely on his word that there is not but to be perfectly frank I am suspicious that it has not got the best coding.

      I have made some progress. I added the windows xp computer account to the permissions and the error changed from cannot open document to cannot save document. In nine years I have never actually done this but is seems to have made some difference. I can start the database by double clicking on it but there are one or two errors when it opens. It appears that the string in the shortcut they use is also causing a problem. One of the new errors is a cannot open toolbar so I think that is a sign of slighly dodge programming as it is only on XP.

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        RE: Here's a good one. No access after joining a d

        >>The application has been developed by an interal member of staff and beause of office politics, only god and him know the workings of the database and the security to access it.

        If this guy quits or dies, god and your company are in deep trouble.

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          RE: Here's a good one. No access after joining a d

          Tell me about it. The company is well aware.

          I think this can be cnsiered dead now. It turned out that the string in the shortcut needed a UNC path father than their previous mapped drive configuration.There are still two errors but these are for him to sort and not me thank god.

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            RE: Here's a good one. No access after joining a d

            Is the database stored in the "program files" folder? If it is, move it out of that folder, put it in the root directory and then you can share it. Win2k and WinXP from what I've learned won't allow sharing the program files folder. I set up one of my customers that way and works great.

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