On 2016-01-26 15:45:26 +0000, feargal said:
Just to add, if I kick all the other users off the system this W10 
machine will function perfectly and connect to the necessary tables 
correctly.


> Hi
> 
> I am having a bit of a dog of a problem with W10 and the BDE
> 
> I am trying to bring a W10 laptop into our network and need it to share 
> a NETFILE with the other PDOX clients.
> 
> I uses the same drive mapping as all the other (non-W10) clients and 
> ostensibly the same cfg file but that is where I am getting strange 
> results.
> 
> In paradox, the settings in Preferences | Database and Preferences | 
> BDE all look fine.
> But I get errors when running my main startup form
> 
> Error
> 
> The system cannot find the file :penta:___posn_summary.db
> 
> OK
> 
> 
> 
> and a further 3 errors list 3 other tables that it "cannot find". All 4 
> of the tables DO exist btw.
> 
> All 4 of these tables are deployed from the :penta: alias to the :priv: 
> alias in the form INIT method, after a disabledefault. The deployment 
> works fine on other non-W10 machines.
> 
> Once deployed (post- DODEFAULT ) they should become part of the form 
> data model.
> 
> But I get another error:
> 
> Paradox
> cannot open :WORK:my_table.db
> You have attempted to open a database that is in use by someone else, 
> but the database cannot be shared. You must set the location for the 
> .NET control file
> 
> Do you want to replace :WORK:my_table.db
> 
> 
> 
> That says to me that there is a BDEADMIN problem.
> 
> If i run the BDE Admin .cpl file it seems to run ok and there is 
> nothing much wrong with the settings. But bif I try to save the config, 
> BDEADMIN crashes. Sounds like a permission problem to me.
> 
> What can I do about this problem?