Hi All,
Once again, I need some help. One person in a team was recently upgraded from Win98 to Win2000. Everyone else in the team has Win98. This team links together via Ethernet hub to share DBFs and APPs.
1) This Win2000 person can see other people's files, but they can't see her files... more importantly - 2) On 2 occasions, the person with Win2000 linked with the others, started FPW2.5, set path to ...(someone else on the team's mapped drive)..., started the APP, & corrupted several DBFs on the other person's HD. I have not witnessed this because it just happened on the field and I'm not physically there. I was told there were "several error messages", but they can't seem to remember to write these things down to tell me what they are.
Anyway, the end result is when they try to open the DBF, it errors with "Memo file missing/invalid" and can't open the file again. The APP does routine backups, so not too much work was lost...
But has anyone else experienced this?? Is this inherent to mixing Win2000 & Win98 & FPW25 & sharing files? Or will I continue to have this problem if everyone goes to Win2000 & uses FPW25 & shares?? Any insight would be greatly appreciated!
Once again, I need some help. One person in a team was recently upgraded from Win98 to Win2000. Everyone else in the team has Win98. This team links together via Ethernet hub to share DBFs and APPs.
1) This Win2000 person can see other people's files, but they can't see her files... more importantly - 2) On 2 occasions, the person with Win2000 linked with the others, started FPW2.5, set path to ...(someone else on the team's mapped drive)..., started the APP, & corrupted several DBFs on the other person's HD. I have not witnessed this because it just happened on the field and I'm not physically there. I was told there were "several error messages", but they can't seem to remember to write these things down to tell me what they are.
Anyway, the end result is when they try to open the DBF, it errors with "Memo file missing/invalid" and can't open the file again. The APP does routine backups, so not too much work was lost...
But has anyone else experienced this?? Is this inherent to mixing Win2000 & Win98 & FPW25 & sharing files? Or will I continue to have this problem if everyone goes to Win2000 & uses FPW25 & shares?? Any insight would be greatly appreciated!
