[AccessD] Back-End DB is locking...WHY?!

Huh?  What exactly do you mean?  I've got a mixed Mac/Windows network at
home, and have never had problems connecting Macs to clients' networks.

Doug


On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Hi all:
>
> The truth be known that no matter how nice the Mac machine, they can not
> do networking...kind of sad but true. They can still do internet though.
>
> Jim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gustav Brock" <gustav at cactus.dk>
> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <
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> Sent: Tuesday, 14 January, 2014 11:12:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Back-End DB is locking...WHY?!
>
> Hi David
>
> You have been fooled somehow. Macs are goood! Spell: g-o-o-o-d => gooood.
>
> /gustav
>
>
> -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
> Fra: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af David A Gibson
> Sendt: 14. januar 2014 21:13
> Til: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> Emne: Re: [AccessD] Back-End DB is locking...WHY?!
>
> A word of caution when sharing DBs between PCs & Macs.  One year we had an
> MS Access 2010 .accdb shared between about 40 users with as many as 15-20
> accessing it at one time without any problems.  The next year or the one
> after, we did it again and had all kinds of file corruption problems.
>  Turns
> out that whenever a Mac user running Access in Parallels would manage to
> lock their computer without exiting the DB it would corrupt data tables.
> Had a lot of lost work before we figured it out.
>
> David Gibson
>
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