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At 28 JUL 1998 11:21:08AM craig wrote:

AREV Specific

I am using AREV 2.12 with a Novell 3.12 network. I have 5 work stations (4 using DOS, 1 using windows 95) Whenever I bring up a record on the win95 workstation, there is no record locking performed. Also, I had to turn of index updating on that workstation off otherwise I get GFE's .

Will the Revelation NLM fix either or both problems? Is the record locking a function of the network Bump Disk or Windows 95?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanx,

Craig

At 28 JUL 1998 02:06PM Jason Blackwell - [email protected] wrote:

Your problem has to deal with the "CLIENT" that connects your Win 32bit OS to Novell. In all these new Operating Systems, the requesters (part of the Win95 CLIENT) wanting to be used (i.e. DOS) by the application to speak to the File Server in order to place or read LOCKS, have been removed. The result of this, is Windows95 etc.. does not pass on (or even read) the LOCK call to the Novell Server, and therefore will index when it set to, regardless if another user is writing to index table. The thing to remember, a LOCK is only a tag and if ignored, can not prevent concurrent use of a record.

Your suggestion of using the NLM is a great idea. The NLM will act as a client server environment. As far as the system goes, the users get log into the NLM, and the NLM in turn logs into the data. In other works the data only sees one person writing to it and that would be the NLM which gets its requests from the users. Locking then no longer becomes an issue as only one thing writes to the data.

Good luck ……JASON

At 28 JUL 1998 05:54PM Steve Smith wrote:

Download the 2.2.0.0 (or later) Intranetware client from Novell, and install it on the Win 95 PC. Then disable all caching in the client settings. The early Microsoft Netware clients had problems with locking. Later Novell-developed clients fixed these problems.

There is probably no need to buy the NLM for such a small site, but if performance is an issue it may help.

Steve

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At 06 AUG 1998 03:50AM Dennis Colthurst - [email protected] wrote:

Thank You !!! I am having the same problem. Since installing WIN 95 on a station AND the NLM, I am having GFE's and Link List errors by the tons. Can you expand on what you were experiencing and give me a clue as to how to cope with it ???? Many thanks

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