FoxPro Help and Support - Windows XP and VFP 8.0

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Windows XP and VFP 8.0

Yorch from Peru

2005-06-16, 8:26 pm

I have an annoying issue with a thirdparty app developed in VFP 8.0 and
clients running WinXP.
The app is served in a shared folver by a Win98 pc. Clients are WinXP,
running the VFP Client, but when they try to connect the APP, an error pops
up with a message like this: the app is not well conf, a re-install may work
in order the app can run.
But, when I ran the same app from a Win98 client, everything works fine and
fast.
I installed the APP in a WinXP pc to serve clients, but the connection was
extremely slow, til the clients pc's almost hang-up.
Do I need an add-on, an update (althoug all my XP clients are so patched),
what do I need to do?
PLEASE, ANY CLUE ABOUT THIS ISSUE WILL BE HELPFUL.
Tnx guys.
Yorch from Peru

Lee Mitchell

2005-06-16, 8:26 pm

Hi Yorch:

This error message is not a VFP error. This looks like an error is being
trapped by the developer with an ON ERROR routine and then he displays a
user friendly message.

Have you contacted the developer to ask him what might prompt this error?

One thing I can think of is anti virus. Have you prevent your anti virus
software from scanning VFP data file? Here is an article that provides
info on this topic. Anti virus might also explain when you application run
so slowly from a Windows XP machine.

http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...KB;EN-US;304482
http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...KB;EN-US;321550

I hope this helps.

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Sincerely,
Microsoft FoxPro Technical Support
Lee Mitchell

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>I have an annoying issue with a thirdparty app developed in VFP 8.0 and
>clients running WinXP.
>The app is served in a shared folver by a Win98 pc. Clients are WinXP,
>running the VFP Client, but when they try to connect the APP, an error
pops
>up with a message like this: the app is not well conf, a re-install may
work
>in order the app can run.
>But, when I ran the same app from a Win98 client, everything works fine
and
>fast.
>I installed the APP in a WinXP pc to serve clients, but the connection was
>extremely slow, til the clients pc's almost hang-up.
>Do I need an add-on, an update (althoug all my XP clients are so patched),
>what do I need to do?
>PLEASE, ANY CLUE ABOUT THIS ISSUE WILL BE HELPFUL.
>Tnx guys.
>Yorch from Peru

Dan Freeman

2005-06-16, 8:26 pm

You need to be running a server operating system on your server. Win98 and
WinXP are not server operating systems.

Dan

Yorch from Peru wrote:
> I have an annoying issue with a thirdparty app developed in VFP 8.0
> and clients running WinXP.
> The app is served in a shared folver by a Win98 pc. Clients are WinXP,
> running the VFP Client, but when they try to connect the APP, an
> error pops up with a message like this: the app is not well conf, a
> re-install may work in order the app can run.
> But, when I ran the same app from a Win98 client, everything works
> fine and fast.
> I installed the APP in a WinXP pc to serve clients, but the
> connection was extremely slow, til the clients pc's almost hang-up.
> Do I need an add-on, an update (althoug all my XP clients are so
> patched), what do I need to do?
> PLEASE, ANY CLUE ABOUT THIS ISSUE WILL BE HELPFUL.
> Tnx guys.
> Yorch from Peru

swdev2

2005-06-17, 3:26 am

Heya Yorch:
1. Windows 98 and Windows XP are not server based OS's at all - switch to,
at least, Windows NT 4 Server or Windows 2000 Server .
2. Please contact the company that deployed this app with the 'annoying
issue' and ask them THEIR preferred methods of deployment.
3. Do you need a VFP resource in Peru to come in and fix you ? please let
me know.
4. Aren't protocol stacks FUN ??? Make sure you are utilizing either:
IPX/SPX
NETBUIE
NETBIOS
TCP/IP
but no more than 2 at the same time. IF you have XP workstations that are
loading all/everything -
you'll have lots of performance degredation for FILE I/O, especially with
that File Server (SIC) you are utilizing.

warmest regards [Bill]
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www.efgroup.net/vfpwebhosting
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> I have an annoying issue with a thirdparty app developed in VFP 8.0 and
> clients running WinXP.
> The app is served in a shared folver by a Win98 pc. Clients are WinXP,
> running the VFP Client, but when they try to connect the APP, an error
pops
> up with a message like this: the app is not well conf, a re-install may
work
> in order the app can run.
> But, when I ran the same app from a Win98 client, everything works fine
and
> fast.
> I installed the APP in a WinXP pc to serve clients, but the connection was
> extremely slow, til the clients pc's almost hang-up.
> Do I need an add-on, an update (althoug all my XP clients are so patched),
> what do I need to do?
> PLEASE, ANY CLUE ABOUT THIS ISSUE WILL BE HELPFUL.
> Tnx guys.
> Yorch from Peru

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