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4.90. How do I get estimate to run at the same time on separate computers?

I am experiencing an inability to have the estimate program run at the same time on separate
work stations.
When my work station seizes a pop up appears and says that I am restricted by another user.
It would reference the name of the user and then give the location address of the data base on the server.

My operating system is Windows 98 the others have XP.
Might this be the problem?

NOTE: Significant improvements were made to the networking protocols in version 1.96B3 and later. It is strongly recommended that you upgrade your software if you are running a version previous to 1.96.

This problem can be related to a networking issue.

1. Networking. It is vitally important that all computers be running the same version of EstiMate and that all of them, including the host machine have the same path to the data in the correct format.

To check what the path is in EstiMate you can click File > Network setup. An example of an INCORRECT data path is "C:\Program Files\EstiMate\Data" this is great on a stand alone machine but on a network it needs to be formatted differently.

An example of a CORRECT data path is "\\Server\c\Program_Files\EstiMate\Data" and this breaks down to the format of "\\computername\drive_name\Directory\Data" so be sure to check each machine on the network to confirm the path to the data is formatted in this way and that all computers have the same path.

2. In a mapped drive construct difficulty may be caused when the client machines on the network have different drive names in the data path.

INCORRECT:

Client1: M:\Data
Client2: N:\Data
Client3: O:\Data

CORRECT:

Client1: M:\Data
Client2: M:\Data
Client3: M:\Data