Thanks so much for all of your posts. This has helped me understand
what is going on. I think I will try first by moving the front end to
a shared location on the Citrix servers and see if that helps. If
they are still having problems then I will explore giving each Citrix
user their own copy of the front end.
One more question. Currently at our company (we are a consulting
company) we have an in-house Access program where each local user has
a copy of the front end on their local PC and all remote users get to
the system using one Citrix server and a single *shared* copy of the
Access program on the Citrix server. (Very similar to the client
scenario that I described at the beginning of this thread) We have
about 30 users who log in via Citrix and this seems to work fine for
us. (We never get the errors that I described earlier that our client
is gettin) However almost all of the posts in this thread have been
stressing that each Citrix user should have their *own* copy of the
front end on the Citrix server. Is there some sort of number of users
threshhold where it becomes smarter to give each Citrix user their own
copy of the front end? The guy who develops and deploys our in-house
system here seemed to think that it wasn't necessary to give each
Citrix user their own copy of the front end because he said that he
thought that Citrix was supposed to be able to do a good job of
managing multi-user access to files on a Citrix server. Any more
thoughts are appreciated.
Corey Burnett
jbongiardina@fds.com (JoeB) wrote in message news:<e650c36a.0311211338.719eee64@posting.google. com>...[color=blue]
> Albert, thanks for the tip on the AutoFE utility. This answers a
> question I've had for a while but never posted. And yes, I've been
> semi-manually updating the front-ends. The users have a batch file
> icon on their desktops that never changes, but I modify at text and
> batch file on the server when a new fe has to be copied to their
> machines. I'll be giving autofe a try now.
> Joe Bongiardina
> Long Island, NY
>
>
>
> "Albert D. Kallal" <pleasenonosspammkallal@msn.com> wrote in message news:<Dnivb.445833$pl3.208337@pd7tw3no>...[color=green][color=darkred]
> > >>Then I guess that I will have to copy the[/color]
> > front end MDE file to all 50 user profiles home directory on all 4
> > Citrix servers - 200 copies of the MDE file. Am I understanding this
> > correctly? So I could eliminate some of the network traffic but not all
> > of it.
> >
> >
> > Yes, you are correct. The rule here is that each user runs their own copy of
> > the front end. End of argument. You can have all shortcuts for the workgroup
> > file, and the back end database to be the same. But for the FRONT END YOU
> > NEED to have a copy for each users. I mean, they all have my documents etc
> > somewhere also...so this is not a big deal.
> >
> > So, yes, for each user provide, you have a single mde for that user.
> >
> > This advice is given out here probably on a daily basis. You notice that
> > Chuck mentioned a example that where they copied a mde file for each user to
> > a temp file, and problems went away. Once again, this advice that given
> > daily here is proven. By Chucks example, you can see how his problems went
> > away.
> >
> > I will state it again:
> >
> > Each user gets their own copy of the mde. It matters not they run Citrix or
> > not. In the case of Citrix, then obviously as mentioned, the mde goes in dir
> > that is limited to the particular user (and of course we are talking about
> > the server side with Citrix, as the client matters not, and might be apple
> > Mac, or whatever.[/color][/color]
