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    Lost adb file on the network

    Server windows 2000
    Work station 1 xp home desktop
    Work station2 windows Me laptop

    1. Application on the server with runtime on the work stations.

    2. Work station 1 access the server open the .adb file and run network optimization, all works fine.

    3. Work station 2 access the server and cannot find the .adb file to open the application, all other files are there.

    Searched the forum but unable to find any help. (must be framing the search question wrong!)

    How can the .adb file be seen on work station 1 and not on work station 2?

    Any help would be appreciated.

    Alan

    #2
    RE: Lost adb file on the network

    Not that familiar with "Server windows 2000".

    Can you navigate to the .adb directory in explorer? Permissions issue?
    There can be only one.

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      #3
      RE: Lost adb file on the network

      Alan

      Anything's possible with ME.

      Like Stan's question, what can you see in the directory from ws 2?

      Are you using a shortcut to get to the database from each machine?

      If so, make sure to make the shortcut on the system that is using the shortcut. Otherwise you'll get mixed results.
      This may not be an issue until you get based finding the .adb

      Are you using a shared directory from the file server?
      Al Buchholz
      Bookwood Systems, LTD
      Weekly QReportBuilder Webinars Thursday 1 pm CST

      Occam's Razor - KISS
      Normalize till it hurts - De-normalize till it works.
      Advice offered and questions asked in the spirit of learning how to fish is better than someone giving you a fish.
      When we triage a problem it is much easier to read sample systems than to read a mind.
      "Make it as simple as possible, but not simpler."
      Albert Einstein

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        #4
        RE: Lost adb file on the network

        Stan & Al,

        Thanks for quick reply.

        1. Accessing the server from ws 2, in explorer on the server can see all the application files except the adb.

        2. WS 1 can access the server from the desktop shortcut.

        3. WS 2 cannot use the shortcut on the desktop because unable to network optimize.

        4. Nothing unusual on the server, no other a5 products only the app., same with the laptop.

        5. Checked all the permissions and security of the app folder all ok.

        6. Checked on the server via explorer the app files and the adb is there!

        Me thinks it must be a Me issue.

        On another note I will have to miss the Alpha conference this year as I will be in Scotland on a golfing tour.

        Regards

        Alan

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          #5
          RE: Lost adb file on the network

          Ah Ah!

          Compacted the db via ws 1 now when I look at the app from ws 2 I can see the adb file except when I click on it the system displays the open with screen prompting the user to select a program.

          Just to see what would happen I selected "other" option and navigated to the adb on the server clicked ok and received the message:

          Product.adb is not a valid Win32 application.

          via ws 1 it is, via ws 2 it isn't.

          Alan

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            #6
            RE: Lost adb file on the network

            Alan

            That's OK. Just leave a credit card.... ;-)
            Al Buchholz
            Bookwood Systems, LTD
            Weekly QReportBuilder Webinars Thursday 1 pm CST

            Occam's Razor - KISS
            Normalize till it hurts - De-normalize till it works.
            Advice offered and questions asked in the spirit of learning how to fish is better than someone giving you a fish.
            When we triage a problem it is much easier to read sample systems than to read a mind.
            "Make it as simple as possible, but not simpler."
            Albert Einstein

            http://www.iadn.com/images/media/iadn_member.png

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              #7
              RE: Lost adb file on the network

              Alan

              I try to never open a database from clicking the .adb file.

              Open the Alpha program and then use Alpha to open the .adb

              Then use Alpha to generate a shortcut for that machine.
              Al Buchholz
              Bookwood Systems, LTD
              Weekly QReportBuilder Webinars Thursday 1 pm CST

              Occam's Razor - KISS
              Normalize till it hurts - De-normalize till it works.
              Advice offered and questions asked in the spirit of learning how to fish is better than someone giving you a fish.
              When we triage a problem it is much easier to read sample systems than to read a mind.
              "Make it as simple as possible, but not simpler."
              Albert Einstein

              http://www.iadn.com/images/media/iadn_member.png

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                #8
                RE: Lost adb file on the network

                Al,

                When attempting a network optimize from a work station don't you need to navigate from the work station to the server and open explorer on the server, select the .adb (i.e. the alpha icon ) to open the app and then from tools run the network optimize to create the shadow on the work station?

                This is what i've done on all my other network setup's and works fine, it is the Me laptop that is giving me the hebeegebees! Do you want to buy a used Me laptop?

                Regards

                Alan

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                  #9
                  RE: Lost adb file on the network

                  Pardon me for jumping me, but I'd never do it the way you describe.

                  Start the runtime engine on the local workstation from Windows' start programs menu. Do not load a database and open the runtime together by using a database shortcut.

                  At this point the runtime engine is running but no database is loaded. You'll see an ugly grey screen with nothing but a menu. So, from that menu choose

                  file, then
                  open database, then
                  browse over the network to the server, then
                  select the database to open, then
                  go to the control panel, then
                  select file, then
                  select network optimize.

                  -- tom

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                    #10
                    RE: Lost adb file on the network

                    Hi Tom,

                    There is always another way!. Will check at the office tomorrow and let you know the results.

                    By the way, you jumping in was very quiet, you must have been wearing bunny slippers :-)

                    Best regards

                    Alan

                    P.S. time to visit my restaurant, I owe you a dinner from last year.

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                      #11
                      RE: Lost adb file on the network

                      Morning Tom,

                      Followed your instructions and it worked, I now have a new way of network optimizing.

                      Point of clarification for others, Tom's penultimate line should read: "select tools then"

                      Thanks again Tom, hope to see you soon.

                      Alan

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