Problem: data can be read from any table but every atempt to wirte into
database causes status 81. Files are not locked, user hat all rights on
directory and files, including admin rights. Installation of Btrieve seems
to ok, since working on a local drive doesn't make any problems at all.
Creating tables with butil -clone and loading data with butil -load works
fine. Updating a recordset in such a table just created with butil from
within the windows-app via w32mkde.exe causes status 81. App has been
working for years and is still doing it's job on a win2k workstation.

Konfiguration: old Win-App on XP-Workstation (SP1) using btrieve 6 via
w32mkde.exe, database files on Novell server 4.11, Novell client version
4.90.

Any help appreciated.
Chris

The Win32 engine requires access to special 0-byte LCK files in order to
handle multi-user concurrency. Your system is likely unable to create these
LCK files for some reason, perhaps because of lack of create or delete rights
(in case the LCK file already exists).

If you use a client/server engine on the database server, not only will you
have MUCH better performance, but you'll eliminate the use of these LCK files
and resolve the problem completely. Right now, you must figure out why the
LCK files cannot be created.

There is a tool at www.sysinternals.com called FileMon that may be helpful in
this regard.
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Bill Bach
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Chris Marx wrote:

I don't think that the LCK files are causing the problem. The check tis I
copied the database files to a new an empty directory on the server, deleted
all lck files and startetd the application. I checked the content of the
directory and saw that the lck files of all opend database files were
created by the engine.

Any more hints?
Chris

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