From: Ellen K. 

Oh boy, you just filled in a whole bunch of gaps, thank you!!!

We use a thing called "Advantage Database Server" that lets us
talk to .DBF files as if they were a real database.  (Well, up to a
point... but still better than nothing.)  So I guess this "NLM"
thing is what allows it to run on Novell?   (One feature of Advantage is
that it actually
enables something other than file-serving to happen on the server.)

I have no idea whether we can theoretically control locking, but I will check it out.

Thanks again.   :)

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 20:53:08 GMT, John Beckett
 wrote in message
:

>Ellen K  wrote in message
>news::
>> We have confirmed that using the three-finger salute or the close box (X at
the
>> top right corner of the application) causes the held resources problem.  In
>> fact, the box that causes it can even be shut down after that and the server
>> still refuses to release the connection.  We learned that this is a known
issue
>> with the Novell NLM (whatever an NLM is).
>
>NLM is NetWare  Loadable Module - optional software loaded by the
>operating system. I guess the Novell version of a Windows service.
>
>Years ago there were issues with database programs using a NetWare server.
>The solution was to turn off "optimistic locking". This is so long ago
>that I would imagine the underlying causes have been fixed, but you never
>know.
>
>I can't find my ancient notes on the matter, but maybe Google will turn up
>something.
>
>John

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