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Access front end, sql 7 backend, dsn on novell server

This is an interesting problem.
We recently had the privelege of upgrading a Netware 5.0 network
server.
It used to be on old HP equipment.
Now it sits on new Dell equipment.
There was a database app running on this network.
Clients-mixed 98/2000 os.
Running access 2000 front end.
Back end is a ms sql server 7 running on a windows 2k workstation.
The DSNs tying the two together used to sit on the Novell server.
As did the actual .mdbs.

We put them all back onto the new server.
Same ip.
Different ipx address.
Now the clients see super slow response from the application.
So slow that the clients sometimes toast their connections out of
frustration only to corrupt the dbs.

Any ideas?

tia
Luke
Nov 13 '05 #1
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One thing to realize is that you do NOT want to share the mdb file on eh
server.

You need to give each user their own copy. In addition, preferably, each
work station should get a mde.

All kinds of server locking and contention problems will occur if you have
multiple users into the same file. So, don't do it.

You don't install and run word off of the server, nor do you install and run
Excel off of the server. Just because you use some software development
tools like C++, VB, or ms-access does not all of a sudden mean that you
start sharing the applications(s) you have on the server.

You can certainly share some word docs on the server..but SOFTWARE you have
goes on each pc.

Your old system might have worked this way..but you really were simply
lucky...

You can have a split access database, and place the data mdb file on the
server..but the application part with forms, code etc goes on EACH computer.
You done that for years with products Simply Accounting, Word, Excel etc.
So, when you install and setup"your application "name" goes here", then
again you install this on each computer.

If you need to do updates to the software, then you can write a bit code to
grab a new frond end, or use Tony's free FE updater that can be found here:

http://www.granite.ab.ca/access/autofe.htm

--
Albert D. Kallal (Access MVP)
Edmonton, Alberta Canada
pl*****************@msn.com
http://www.attcanada.net/~kallal.msn
Nov 13 '05 #2
Albert:

I apologize for the confusion.

1. Access 2000 front end (installed and residing) on a variety of
client OS's: 98, 2000, etc.
2. The DSN and .mdb's reside on a brand new DELL server.
3. The querying and back end control is by a sql 7 server residing on
a WIN2k pro workstation.

The most recent "change" was that the DSN and .mdb's were put onto a
brand new hardware platform. Same nos (Netware SBS 5.0), same
tree|context|server_name, same ip address, different ipx address.

Access to the databases is slow. At times frustratingly so.

tia
Luke

"Albert D. Kallal" <Pl*******************@msn.com> wrote in message news:<zoAtc.572484$Pk3.515518@pd7tw1no>...
One thing to realize is that you do NOT want to share the mdb file on eh
server.

You need to give each user their own copy. In addition, preferably, each
work station should get a mde.

All kinds of server locking and contention problems will occur if you have
multiple users into the same file. So, don't do it.

You don't install and run word off of the server, nor do you install and run
Excel off of the server. Just because you use some software development
tools like C++, VB, or ms-access does not all of a sudden mean that you
start sharing the applications(s) you have on the server.

You can certainly share some word docs on the server..but SOFTWARE you have
goes on each pc.

Your old system might have worked this way..but you really were simply
lucky...

You can have a split access database, and place the data mdb file on the
server..but the application part with forms, code etc goes on EACH computer.
You done that for years with products Simply Accounting, Word, Excel etc.
So, when you install and setup"your application "name" goes here", then
again you install this on each computer.

If you need to do updates to the software, then you can write a bit code to
grab a new frond end, or use Tony's free FE updater that can be found here:

http://www.granite.ab.ca/access/autofe.htm

Nov 13 '05 #3

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