I dont want to sound crazy, but why do you stick with that old crap (no real security, bad filesystem, limited resources, bad network proto stack)? I mean it's Windows 95 (now we have 2005). At least you could try using NT4. That has fewer security issues, and is more stable, and also supports NTFS (which can safe lives in case of power failure), and features some kind of process isolation (which means it will avoid the whole computer crashing if your app has a problem).

Ok, I know, it is your client and you cant force him to use another OS, but you can describe him those scary scenarios where the computer crashes and the whole filesystem gets flushed down the toilet. If you secure the computer (i.e. firewall) and use it only as a database server, you can remove this resource-hungry virus scanner (who needs it if there is no way to move a file onto the computer?).


Regards, Alex

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com] Im Auftrag von
> Werner F. Bruhin
> Gesendet: Sonntag, 15. Mai 2005 16:32
> An: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> Betreff: Re: [firebird-support] Norton Antivirus 2005 on
> Win98 prevents
>
> Just for the record.
>
> The problem turned out to be unrelated to Norton. It has to
> do with the Windows 9x resource limitation for System and
> User Resources. I only found this out by chance as I had
> some other programs running on my
> Win98 test machine when I run one of the tests to recreate
> this users problem.
>
> My application is written in Python/wxPython and during the
> start of the
> application when the wx.Panels are created Windows 9x just
> keeps on eating up resources. The error messages can be just
> about anything, in one case it can't get the database file in
> another it can't create a combobox etc etc.
>
> Only when I start the Microsoft Resource Meter
> (Start/Programs/Accessories/System Tools) did Windows give a
> sensible warning message that system is running out of
> resources and strangly enough in some cases running this tool
> meant that the application actually started up and worked correctly!
>
> I haven't found a clean solution, the current work around is
> to call the garbabe collection and display a progress dialog.
> The dialog is needed to force Windows 98 to actually return
> some unused resources. With this trick my test machine stays
> between 50 and 70% free System/User resources.
>
> See you
> Werner
>
>
> Helen Borrie wrote:
> > At 02:52 PM 9/05/2005 +0200, you wrote:
> >
> >>Hi Helen,
> >>
> >>Helen Borrie wrote:
> >>
> >> > Werner,
> >> >
> >> > At 12:31 PM 9/05/2005 +0200, you wrote:
> >> >
> >> >>Hi All,
> >> >>
> >> >>I have a client who reports problems when running my application
> >> >>together with Norton Antivirus 2005.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Are you sure it is Norton AV and not Norton Internet Security?
> >>Not sure, will check.
> >> NIS is a
> >> > firewall and he will need to configure it to allow LAN access to
> >> > the
> >>server
> >> > via TCP port 3050.
> >>
> >>Sorry, forgot to mention that the application uses Firebird
> Embedded
> >>on the client. And the database connection string I pass to
> >>kinterbasdb is
> >>this:
> >>self.ds = datasource(adapter="firebird", database=self.dbfilename,
> >> user="USER", password="passwd",
> >>charset="ISO8859_1")
> >>
> >>self.dbfilename contains something along these lines:
> >>C:\TheWineCellarBook\twcb.fdb
> >>
> >>I assumed that on this kind of setup there is no issue with
> TCP port 3050?
> >
> >
> > No, there shouldn't be. Still, it will be a needle in a haystack
> > until you find out which Norton product is stopping the
> > connection/blocking the client library/locking the database
> directory/whatever.
> >
> > You could try posting a question to firebird-python to see whether
> > there is a known client issue with Win98 and any of the
> Norton utilities.
> >
> > ./heLen
> >
> >
> >
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