I have a new install of version 6 in peer-to-peer fashion. The PC hosting the database is NT 4 SP5, the clients are W2K SP1. I have a 3 user license. SP1 for Maximizer has been installed.

If I do not specify a gateway I can get in from the machine hosting the database as well as the other PCs. Once I configure a gateway (on the same machine as the one hosting the database), the only machine that can get in is the one where the database resides. The other PCs receive: "There has been a data access error probably caused by an incorrect configuration. Please see your administrator."

Multiactive "speed support" made the situation worse by having me edit the registry. I do not even get the error and get booted out of Maximizer. Deleting the ~PVSW~.LOC file gets me back in the database without the gateway. I also removed the specified registry entries. The contents of the .loc file are the correct machine name for the gateway.

Any thoughts before I wait on hold for 20 minutes with "speed support" for my allocated 15 minutes? Thanks.

Are you pre-loading the WorkGroup Engine on the gateway machine? The command is

C:\PVSW\BIN\W3DBSMGR.EXE -BTRV

Since you're using an NT box as the gateway your options are:

1. Set the box to automatically login on boot, then put the above command in a batch file in one of the startup groups.

2. Run the WGE as a service using the SRVANY.EXE utility from the Windows NT Resource Kit. (Not sure if this is officially supported by Pervasive, but I tried it once and it seemed to work okay.)

I think we may be on to something here. If I'm logged into NT (Maximizer closed) I cannot access the database from the workstation.

If Maximizer is open on the server and the address book is closed the workstation, I cannot access the database. I recieve a bunch of beeps and get kicked out the program on the workstation.

If I have the address book open on the server, I can access the address book.

I tried running the command manually,
(w3dbsmgr.exe) and it put the pervasive icon in my system tray, but I still couldn't get in from the workstation.

[This message has been edited by Mike Z (edited 17 July 2001).]

Gordon,

It appears you were right. The trick was to have the server and the workstation loading the file. I read your message as the server only.

Now on to workstation #2!

Thanks,
Mike

I've had the same problem like it for several week. I've tried everything and always have the same error desbribed aboved.

Is the solution to have the address book open in the server?

I can access from 2 machines, but when I tried in another two I got the message.

Thanks.

I needed to have the following loading in the startup group on the server and the workstations. The address book is not open on the server. My Maximizer server is actually an NT server so I needed to use the SRVANY program from the resource kit to have it run as a service.

C:\PVSW\BIN\W3DBSMGR.EXE -BTRV