WideServer not showing when a disconnection occurs problem

[Suggy]

When I connect wideclient to wideserver there is no problem. However, when I close down the wideclient, FS2004 is still reporting that the client is still connected. When I start wideclient running again, FS2004 reports that another connection has been made.

Any idea what the problem is?

Regards,

Darren

[Pete Dowson]

When I connect wideclient to wideserver there is no problem. However, when I close down the wideclient, FS2004 is still reporting that the client is still connected. When I start wideclient running again, FS2004 reports that another connection has been made.

If the Network driver doesn't tell the server that the connection has closed (as it really should do, but I have noticed times when it doesn't), then WideServer will only notice after a timeout period -- I think it is set to something like 20 seconds by default. It does no harm, I wouldn't worry about it if I were you.

There are other causes of the multiple connection indications too -- these are described in the WideFS documentation.

Regards,

Pete