Has anyone tried Advantage Data Base Server executing from a Linux server.
Does it function ok?
If using a Linux server with a computer name of Main Server.
Can a windows station execute if file("\MainServer\Data\SomeFile.dbf")
I have never used Linux but I was thinking it may be good for larger installs you would not need Microsoft server.
Any thoughts appreciated.
Mike
> Can a windows station execute if file("\MainServer\Data\SomeFile.dbf")
No.
( Unless special software for this purpose is installed allowing Linux to share its files with Windows ).
But we can use ADS functions (1) AdsFindNextTable62 and (2) AdsFindNextTable62 to obtain a list of tables available on the ADS server given any mask. With this information, we can ascertain if a file exists.
Alternatively we can TRY accessing the table and handle the error returned.
Mike,
I'm working with Linux server with ADS 7.1 many years, until now I don´t have any problems, I use ADT file and ADS Dictionary. In my work there are many systems ( FWH + xHb ) which access to differents ads databases plus PHP users to access the same data, the server is Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz 512 MB RAM, in the same servere there are another DB like Postgresql.
Regards
Marcelo
