klas.engwall

Gabor,


Hmmm, that sounds like a bug in XP - it "kind of works" but breaks
down. Perhaps something that has been or will be addressed in a
service pack?

I haven't applied the net share / net use trick on XP in real life, I
only know that it "is supposed" to be supported. It sounds like a good
idea to suspend use of that feature until those problems have been
ironed out, at least as far as LPT1 is concenrned.

But on the other hand, I generally recommend against redirecting any
printer to a port which is physically present in the computer since it
can confuse other applications. In 99% of the cases there is one
physical LPT port and nothing else, so I redirect to LPT2 and LPT3.
With my LanMan Library functions you can use for example LPT3 for all
redirections and connect and disconnect any number of printers, one at
a time, to the same local port. That shouldn't interfere with the LPT1
port no matter what the remaining bugs in XP are.

What are your other reasons for suspending XP use completely? We have
probably discussed it before, but my brain is getting old <g>.

For "normal" use by Clipper applications, including redirecting
network printers using the LanMan Library functions, I have found that
XP works equally well as NT and 2K.

By the way, are we talking about XP Home or XP Pro? Perhaps your
clients are on the Home version. I know that mine are using Pro. Here
is a quote from Steve Quinn today regarding XP Home: "XP Home is
seriousyl defective on Networking (total waste of time IMO, XP Home
that is<g>) You might find info here - http://www.jsiinc.com/ about
how to work around it's networking problems".

Klas

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gabor salai

it is interesting difference between things "been intended" to work
and things "been seen" to work.
my contact with xp was really short, maybe was confused.
need more systematic testing.

problem is our clipper apps. they are installed on many-many locations,
many of them are still 486/dos machines and we try to have as fewer
different versions as possible. because of purpose of app, code and
periferal interface must be 100% safe. additionaly, users are typicaly
unskilled.

like to read more about practical experience clipper/xp