"In Use" Message from Act Software on an NSS Volume
Articles and Tips: qna
01 Dec 2002
Q.
Is there any workaround to the "In use by another" error message when running the Act database software on an NSS volume?
Wally Worker
A.
Dear Wally: Try this workaround. The first user going into ACT each morning must Lock, then Unlock the Act database. For example:
File -> Administration -> Lock Database
File -> Administration -> Unlock Database
It only takes about 5 seconds, and after this, all others users are able to get into and use ACT without the error.
Note: The Lock Database function is only available to users who have the Administrator security level.
Here's another workaround that has been suggested by another consultant:
Run Native File Access Protocol (NFAP) on the NSS Volume. This makes it a CIFS volume and will be seen in the Network Neighborhood as a MICROSOFT SERVER and VOLUME. Share it out. Put on ACT on the shared out NFAP volume and run it. It will run extremely fast--as fast as when you place the database on the local HD of a machine. Now ACT is accessing a drive that it thinks is Microsoft.
The third alternative would be to create a Traditional Volume in NW 6 and run ACT from there.
* Originally published in Novell AppNotes
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