Hi All
We have an app, which has lived on windows PC's and a windows server (on premisis) for years which has worked without issue.
Nothing fancy going on!
It has now been moved onto two virtual machines, both on the same host in the cloud.
One machine is acting as the file server and one as a RDS box.
All the users are connecting in using a remote desktop.
The client side of the app is designed in such a way that locally on the client it uses dedicated files in %appdata%.
The app works but the user are experiencing regular 2005 and 1104 error messages.
Simply waiting a period of time (usually over a minute) whatever the issue is clears and the app continues.
Any idea what it is about this environment that causes this issue?
We have ruled out the anti virus solution used by having it uninstalled, but the problems persist.
TIA
Chris.
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What are the operating systems in question ?
There was an issue recently with an update to Windows 10 1803 causing weird DBF problems due to SMB caching, which I believe are fixed in Windows 10 1809.
Another thing it could be is the Windows Server indexing service which may be on and indexing everything depending on what flavour of Windows Server it is. It could also be online backup software that monitors locations for cloud backup.
It's all server 2016
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Alan Bourke Sent: Tuesday, 05 February 2019 10:29 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: VFP application issues on new server
What are the operating systems in question ?
There was an issue recently with an update to Windows 10 1803 causing weird DBF problems due to SMB caching, which I believe are fixed in Windows 10 1809.
Another thing it could be is the Windows Server indexing service which may be on and indexing everything depending on what flavour of Windows Server it is. It could also be online backup software that monitors locations for cloud backup.
This is really silly, never the less... Recently have installed VFP9 on a new computer (Windows 10). Whenever I do a display stru the columns are super wide and wrapped??
Have looked at my other installs and for the life of me cannot find what I need to adjust/change? (they display fine by the way)
Does anyone remember how to fix this?
Regards, Desmond
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-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Desmond Lloyd Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2019 2:49 PM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Silly VFP9 Issue....
This is really silly, never the less... Recently have installed VFP9 on a new computer (Windows 10). Whenever I do a display stru the columns are super wide and wrapped??
Have looked at my other installs and for the life of me cannot find what I need to adjust/change? (they display fine by the way)
Does anyone remember how to fix this?
Regards, Desmond
Also check the font settings (the VFP Tools > Options menu). Go to the IDE tab and you can change font characteristics, etc.
HTH, -Charlie
On 2/7/2019 4:00 PM, Tracy Pearson wrote:
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-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Desmond Lloyd Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2019 2:49 PM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Silly VFP9 Issue....
This is really silly, never the less... Recently have installed VFP9 on a new computer (Windows 10). Whenever I do a display stru the columns are super wide and wrapped??
Have looked at my other installs and for the life of me cannot find what I need to adjust/change? (they display fine by the way)
Does anyone remember how to fix this?
Regards, Desmond
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_Screen.FontName = "Arial" _Screen.FontSize = 10 etc etc
On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 1:49 PM Desmond Lloyd desmond.lloyd@gmail.com wrote:
This is really silly, never the less... Recently have installed VFP9 on a new computer (Windows 10). Whenever I do a display stru the columns are super wide and wrapped??
Have looked at my other installs and for the life of me cannot find what I need to adjust/change? (they display fine by the way)
Does anyone remember how to fix this?
Regards, Desmond
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Definitely the font settings. Later versions of Windows don't play nicely with FoxFont.
On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 2:49 PM Desmond Lloyd desmond.lloyd@gmail.com wrote:
This is really silly, never the less... Recently have installed VFP9 on a new computer (Windows 10). Whenever I do a display stru the columns are super wide and wrapped??
Have looked at my other installs and for the life of me cannot find what I need to adjust/change? (they display fine by the way)
Does anyone remember how to fix this?
Regards, Desmond
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On 2019-02-05 05:50, Chris Davis wrote:
It's all server 2016
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Alan Bourke Sent: Tuesday, 05 February 2019 10:29 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: VFP application issues on new server
What are the operating systems in question ?
There was an issue recently with an update to Windows 10 1803 causing weird DBF problems due to SMB caching, which I believe are fixed in Windows 10 1809.
Another thing it could be is the Windows Server indexing service which may be on and indexing everything depending on what flavour of Windows Server it is. It could also be online backup software that monitors locations for cloud backup.
Hi Chris,
What became of this? My client has an old 2003 VFP app (using VFP backend) and was having weird problems too. Never could figure it out. I'd be interested in how you fixed this.
Thanks, --Mike
As far as I'm aware the backups will be being taken as an image of the virtual machine but I will check.
I don't think it's indexing related as if we move the data to the RDS box (i.e. the data is on the same box as the client) it works fine, so whatever the issue is seems to be network related but the network is running at full tilt, and obviously there is no physical network between the two machines as they are both of the same physical host
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Alan Bourke Sent: Tuesday, 05 February 2019 10:29 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: VFP application issues on new server
What are the operating systems in question ?
There was an issue recently with an update to Windows 10 1803 causing weird DBF problems due to SMB caching, which I believe are fixed in Windows 10 1809.
Another thing it could be is the Windows Server indexing service which may be on and indexing everything depending on what flavour of Windows Server it is. It could also be online backup software that monitors locations for cloud backup.
If the executable is on the host where the data is stored and not where the RDP session connects, you may have network issues.
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Chris Davis Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2019 9:50 AM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: RE: VFP application issues on new server
As far as I'm aware the backups will be being taken as an image of the virtual machine but I will check.
I don't think it's indexing related as if we move the data to the RDS box (i.e. the data is on the same box as the client) it works fine, so whatever the issue is seems to be network related but the network is running at full tilt, and obviously there is no physical network between the two machines as they are both of the same physical host
As Tracy says, write or get a loader program that loads a copy of the executable to the host machine. That way the .exe will be co-resident all the time.
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Hi All
We have an app, which has lived on windows PC's and a windows server (on premisis) for years which has worked without issue.
Nothing fancy going on!
It has now been moved onto two virtual machines, both on the same host in the cloud.
One machine is acting as the file server and one as a RDS box.
All the users are connecting in using a remote desktop.
The client side of the app is designed in such a way that locally on the client it uses dedicated files in %appdata%.
The app works but the user are experiencing regular 2005 and 1104 error messages.
Simply waiting a period of time (usually over a minute) whatever the issue is clears and the app continues.
Any idea what it is about this environment that causes this issue?
We have ruled out the anti virus solution used by having it uninstalled, but the problems persist.
TIA
Chris.
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Hi both thanks for the replies, Yes we use a loader program that copies the .exe and a few other files into the %appdata% folder of the logged on user.
The .exe then opens the .dbc which is located on the other virtual machine.
If we move the data from the file server to the rds server so all the clients are using it locally ... i.e.
Instead of \fileserver\ourshare
It points to
C:\shareddata
It works without issue, move the data back to the share and we get the random errors.
The app is proven to work over many years, the only thing that’s changed is the environment, server 2016 virtual machines on one physical host and the clients connecting in from the rds box.
We have the same app elsewhere being used from a rds box as the client without issue.
If anything this is the highest spec server its ever lived on, ssd drives on the physical host etc etc.
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Dave Crozier Sent: Tuesday, 05 February 2019 17:28 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: RE: VFP application issues on new server
As Tracy says, write or get a loader program that loads a copy of the executable to the host machine. That way the .exe will be co-resident all the time.
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Hi All
We have an app, which has lived on windows PC's and a windows server (on premisis) for years which has worked without issue.
Nothing fancy going on!
It has now been moved onto two virtual machines, both on the same host in the cloud.
One machine is acting as the file server and one as a RDS box.
All the users are connecting in using a remote desktop.
The client side of the app is designed in such a way that locally on the client it uses dedicated files in %appdata%.
The app works but the user are experiencing regular 2005 and 1104 error messages.
Simply waiting a period of time (usually over a minute) whatever the issue is clears and the app continues.
Any idea what it is about this environment that causes this issue?
We have ruled out the anti virus solution used by having it uninstalled, but the problems persist.
TIA
Chris.
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When you say the RDS and app server are in the cloud, to me this would be ringing alarm bells unless both server instances are on same physical host all the time. Is this Azure or something? Otherwise you are essentially running a file share across the internet.
I will double check, but I believe it is a dedicated physical box in a data centre, which then has the two virtual machines running on it.
It's definitely not a file share across the internet as when it works its fine
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Alan Bourke Sent: Wednesday, 06 February 2019 08:28 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: VFP application issues on new server
When you say the RDS and app server are in the cloud, to me this would be ringing alarm bells unless both server instances are on same physical host all the time. Is this Azure or something? Otherwise you are essentially running a file share across the internet.
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