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Re: Filemaker network problems

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From: Gordon Grieder
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 13:44
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hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Brian Hughes) writes:

> ebido@bio.vu.nl (Etienne Bido) writes:

[stuff deleted]

> >in the same folder which the main database uses for lookups.
> >If I go to, say Mac nr 1, and acces the main database then I have to
> >tell it where his lookup files are. I will tell him.
> >If I go to Mac nr 2, the same story, I show him where the lookup
> >files are and it works fine.
> >If I go back to Mac nr 1, it tells me again that it can't find 
> >the lookup files!!
>
>     Wow. I don't think I have seen this problem before. Do you get the
> same messages when you use the files from the server itself? How are you
> accessing the database files on the server? Are you mounting it onto the
> desktop of the client mac as a fileserver or some other method?
> 

Are your lookup files non-exclusive?  I think that was the fix for a similar
problem we had.


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From: grub@bbs.draco.bison.mb.ca (Gordon Grieder)
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Subject: Re: Filemaker network problems
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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 13:44:02 GMT
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