How to make my application work in a LAN

[gbaja]

I want my application to run in local area network (LAN). pls can somebody assist me?

 

[Imaginecorp]

Its a little more complicated ... but not too much..and has to be throughly planned
Do you have a server or a computer on the network where you can store the databases? If yes create a folder on the server and move all your databases in the folder, now give all your users read-write rights on the folder.
The first program in your app should set the path to the shared folder.
Convert your application to an executable and install on each users machine... Though the user could run your exe from the server, I would not recommend it, it would be slow.
Thats about it in a nutshell...

 

[Olaf Doschke]

Especially if you put the database path into SET PATH as an additional path and users of the app don't have access to the DBC where it was (or still is) locally at your development machine that is all the dataenvironments need to find their tables. Because if they fail to find the dbc and dbfs in the embeeded paths, the tables are serched along the paths stored in SET("PATH").

Bye, Olaf.

 

[Mike Lewis]

In addition to the above good advice, I'd recomment you read the VFP Help sections starting with "Programming for Shared Access".

Mike

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