Win 95 Peer to Peer Network - ATTACH (OpenInsight Specific)
At 29 APR 1998 05:41:31AM Glenys wrote:
On a Win95 network we have 2 PCs connected.
OI resides on one (eg PC A) and is accessed from both
PCs (ie PC A and PC B).
PC A has OI on drive C. PC has drive D pointing PC A.
The data is stored in:
c:\revsoft\data....The ATTACH to the data is:
ATTACH_TABLE("..\DATA\..")The ATTACH on PC A stores the full path name of:
c:\revsoft\data...The ATTACH on PC B stores the path names as:
d:\revsoft\dataThe result is that both PCs can not run at the same time.
Is there anyway to get around this?
Not using PC A is not an option.
At 29 APR 1998 07:22AM Bryan Feddish wrote:
Find the .DBT file in your OI directory. Back it up! Next edit it with a non-destructive editor (like in AREV) and change the hard-coded path names to relative ones.
Bryan
At 29 APR 1998 10:35AM Scott Revelation wrote:
Glenys,
What you could do, is use the old SUBST command. Since PC B is mapping its D drive to c:\revsoft, you could put the following line in your autoexec.bat on PC A:
subst d: c:\
Then, after you reboot PC A, it will have drive C and drive D, and they will be identical. Drive D will simply be an alias to Drive C. This way, the drive letters will be sync'ed. To that end, be sure that your "d:" drive is available on PC A. If you have a CD-ROM or a second hard drive, or the D drive on PC A is used for something else that's critical, you can go down to any other drive letter that is available (e.g. subst q: c:\) but be sure to make the corresponding change in drive mapping on PC B, so that the drive letters that OI is on (or rather, where the attached tables will be) are the same.
If you want to test this out without rebooting first, just use the command in a DOS Window, the change is system wide, and is reflected in the explorer.
-Scott Revelation