File Locking

[Anonymous]

I have a situation where a user will be working on a drawing and when they
go to save it back to the server it states that it can not be saved due to
another session having it open.

It happens within our office when saving to the server and when we are
working between offices on that offices server. It is fructrating because
it is pretty random as to the users and the project folders being worked in.

Has anybody had a similar situation or know the fix to this frustrating
problem. I would be greatly appreciative for a solution.

Robert Courter
rcourter@tpta.com

[Anonymous]

Set "XLOADCTL" to 2 on EVERY machine...

I added the following to the acad.lsp on the server:

(setvar "XLOADCTL" 2)

so that every time someone opens a drawing, it sets properly.

--
Tom B
Director, Design Support Section
Burgess & Niple
Phoenix, Arizona!

"Rob Courter" wrote in message
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I have a situation where a user will be working on a drawing and when they
go to save it back to the server it states that it can not be saved due to
another session having it open.

It happens within our office when saving to the server and when we are
working between offices on that offices server. It is fructrating because
it is pretty random as to the users and the project folders being worked in.

Has anybody had a similar situation or know the fix to this frustrating
problem. I would be greatly appreciative for a solution.

Robert Courter
rcourter@tpta.com

[Anonymous]

Are you using Novell? If so you should use the 3.0 client. The 3.2 client will
give you this problem. I had this problem in our office and we racked our
brains out with Autocad to find a solution. When I compared different work
stations the only difference was the client. Change that and no more file
locking.

Rob Courter wrote:

> I have a situation where a user will be working on a drawing and when they
> go to save it back to the server it states that it can not be saved due to
> another session having it open.
>
> It happens within our office when saving to the server and when we are
> working between offices on that offices server. It is fructrating because
> it is pretty random as to the users and the project folders being worked in.
>
> Has anybody had a similar situation or know the fix to this frustrating
> problem. I would be greatly appreciative for a solution.
>
> Robert Courter
> rcourter@tpta.com

[Anonymous]

According to our IS Manager we are using 4.6 thru 4.8. Some of our machines
are Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT. I do not know if that has
something to do with it.

"Ric Hammond" wrote in message
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> Are you using Novell? If so you should use the 3.0 client. The 3.2
client will
> give you this problem. I had this problem in our office and we racked our
> brains out with Autocad to find a solution. When I compared different
work
> stations the only difference was the client. Change that and no more file
> locking.
>
> Rob Courter wrote:
>
> > I have a situation where a user will be working on a drawing and when
they
> > go to save it back to the server it states that it can not be saved due
to
> > another session having it open.
> >
> > It happens within our office when saving to the server and when we are
> > working between offices on that offices server. It is fructrating
because
> > it is pretty random as to the users and the project folders being worked
in.
> >
> > Has anybody had a similar situation or know the fix to this frustrating
> > problem. I would be greatly appreciative for a solution.
> >
> > Robert Courter
> > rcourter@tpta.com
>

[Anonymous]

We also have a similar problem. At a given moment in time every CAD user's file is unsaveable as it is being accessed by another user. The user is the original user. Work around is to save to another filename and then close Acad2ki and then delete the old file and rename the new one back and start again.
We thought we had it narrowed down to a bad NIC card but the problem returned.

We have a mix of WIN98 and WIN2k on the workstations. The network server is NT4.

This has been happening of and on for a couple of years.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

[Anonymous]

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Subject:
Re: File Locking
Date:
Thu, 4 Jan 2001 08:11:39 -0800
From:
Ron Meicho
Newsgroups:
pn.cadmanager

Two things that I have found that influence the file locking.
First...
Check your external xref setting on each station and (options or
preferences tab), we set it here to "enabled with a copy" to
allow many
users over the network to access the same files without
restricting
access for others. Second... on Novel Network systems change the
"nwfs.sys" file to version 4.1.0.6 on each station (found in
..\system32\netware\___"). There apparently is a conflict with
Autocad
and Novel file handing with the later versions of Novel. The fix
(from
Autodesk and Novel sites a few years back) was to replace this
new file
with this old file. This has worked for us here with V14 on
Win95, WinNT
(not sure with Win98). Win2000 version seams to have this problem
fixed.
Hope this helps.

Ron Meicho
Cad Manager
Gray & Osborne, Inc.

File:nwfs.sy

BlueZoom wrote:
>
> We also have a similar problem. At a given moment in time every
> CAD user's file is unsaveable as it is being accessed by
> another user. (snip)

[deek05]

We have had this problem also. We found that it was our antivirus program. Just a thought.

DT

[Anonymous]

What was the antivirus program?  We are using
Norton.

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We
have had this problem also. We found that it was our antivirus program. Just a
thought.

DT

[Anonymous]

I tried the xloadctl fix here but we are still having the same problem. Any
other suggestions? I even swapped out network cards (currently using the
intel 100mip cards)
--
Jeff Crawford
Project/CAD Manager
W.H. Porter, Inc. / Poligon Park Architecture
4240 North 136th Avenue
Holland, Michigan 49424
e-mail: Jeff@poligon.com
phone:1-800-354-7721
fax:1-616-399-9123
cell:1-616-403-6416
AUGI #15985

"Tom B" wrote in message
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> Set "XLOADCTL" to 2 on EVERY machine...
>
> I added the following to the acad.lsp on the server:
>
> (setvar "XLOADCTL" 2)
>
> so that every time someone opens a drawing, it sets properly.
>
> --
> Tom B
> Director, Design Support Section
> Burgess & Niple
> Phoenix, Arizona!
>
> "Rob Courter" wrote in message
> news:45524873AE65F07E79C9D25F27FBE6EB@in.WebX.SaUCah8kaAW...
> I have a situation where a user will be working on a drawing and when they
> go to save it back to the server it states that it can not be saved due to
> another session having it open.
>
> It happens within our office when saving to the server and when we are
> working between offices on that offices server. It is fructrating because
> it is pretty random as to the users and the project folders being worked
in.
>
> Has anybody had a similar situation or know the fix to this frustrating
> problem. I would be greatly appreciative for a solution.
>
> Robert Courter
> rcourter@tpta.com
>