Cannot set indirect dropbox leicklda <dkimbrell[ at ]wowway.com> 10/29/2008 3:05:02 PM Been working with TSI for awhile now trying not to clog up the boards with too many novice questions, but I'm really stuck here. I do not have Replication Manager, nor do I have access to it, so I'm trying to do an indirect synch with TSI alone. I am using Access 2003 & have installed the Jet4.0 & TSI 4.0 dll/exe files, and set references in VB and added the registry key. I've successfully created a replica and done a direct synch using TSI commands in VB (synch.makereplica and synch.synchdirect), so I'm fairly certain I have all the dll's installed & registered correctly. I am trying to execute the following one-time code to assign a dropbox to the local synchronizer and to have it register a local replica: Dim Synch As Synchronizer Set Synch = New Synchronizer Synch.Running = True Synch.IndirectDropbox = "C:\BlinkDrop" Synch.ManagedReplicas.Append "C:\database\bsysdata.mdb" Synch.Running = False Set Synch = Nothing The synchronizer opens fine (as it did when I performed the makereplica and directsynch), but when the code gets to "Synch.IndirectDropbox = "C:\BlinkDrop"", it halts with the error -2417216501 (8004138b) - The operation has failed. I'm baffled by this because this seems like such a simple step - simply assigning a dropbox location. Does anyone know what might be going on here?

Re: Cannot set indirect dropbox leicklda <dkimbrell[ at ]wowway.com> 10/29/2008 3:16:40 PM Another note: I made sure that my dropbox (C:\blinkdrop) IS a shared folder. I thought maybe JET checked for that shared status necessity before assigning the folder.

Re: Cannot set indirect dropbox leicklda <dkimbrell[ at ]wowway.com> 10/29/2008 5:42:26 PM I've been searching the Internet and found another one of David Fenton's informative posts (thanks again David!) that showed me where to find the registry entry for the dropbox location. I changed the registry value (Transporter>FSAddress) to my dropbox directory and that seemed to work. I ran the above one-time code again, eliminating the synch.indirectdropbox line and my replica was added to the Managed Replicas with the synch.managedreplicas.append statement with no problem. Then just for kicks/troubleshooting, I tried to changed the dropbox directory via code again, and again it failed! I can change the dropbox location through the registry but not through code. I don't get it.

Re: Cannot set indirect dropbox "David W. Fenton" <XXXusenet[ at ]dfenton.com.invalid> 10/30/2008 3:19:41 AM leicklda <dkimbrell[ at ]wowway.com> wrote in news:00a31b2c-98c0-408c-a849-6c3b526451b0[ at ]l64g2000hse.googlegroups.co m: [Quoted Text] > Been working with TSI for awhile now trying not to clog up the > boards with too many novice questions, but I'm really stuck here. > > I do not have Replication Manager, nor do I have access to it, so > I'm trying to do an indirect synch with TSI alone. I am using > Access 2003 & have installed the Jet4.0 & TSI 4.0 dll/exe files, > and set references in VB and added the registry key. > > I've successfully created a replica and done a direct synch using > TSI commands in VB (synch.makereplica and synch.synchdirect), so > I'm fairly certain I have all the dll's installed & registered > correctly. > > I am trying to execute the following one-time code to assign a > dropbox to the local synchronizer and to have it register a local > replica: > > Dim Synch As Synchronizer > Set Synch = New Synchronizer > Synch.Running = True > Synch.IndirectDropbox = "C:\BlinkDrop" > Synch.ManagedReplicas.Append "C:\database\bsysdata.mdb" > Synch.Running = False > Set Synch = Nothing > > The synchronizer opens fine (as it did when I performed the > makereplica and directsynch), but when the code gets to > "Synch.IndirectDropbox = "C:\BlinkDrop"", it halts with the error > > -2417216501 (8004138b) - The operation has failed. > > I'm baffled by this because this seems like such a simple step - > simply assigning a dropbox location. > > Does anyone know what might be going on here? I'm not sure why it's failing, but your dropbox *is* invalid, as it won't be accessible from another computer. You need to define a network share for your dropbox and give *that* to the synchronizer. It would be of the form: \\PCName\ShareName". -- David W. Fenton http://www.dfenton.com/ usenet at dfenton dot com http://www.dfenton.com/DFA/

Re: Cannot set indirect dropbox "David W. Fenton" <XXXusenet[ at ]dfenton.com.invalid> 10/30/2008 3:20:42 AM leicklda <dkimbrell[ at ]wowway.com> wrote in news:564076b7-1cef-4d71-b5c5-ac4414a417c3[ at ]y21g2000hsf.googlegroups.co m: [Quoted Text] > I've been searching the Internet and found another one of David > Fenton's informative posts (thanks again David!) that showed me > where to find the registry entry for the dropbox location. I > changed the registry value (Transporter>FSAddress) to my dropbox > directory and that seemed to work. I ran the above one-time code > again, eliminating the synch.indirectdropbox line and my replica > was added to the Managed Replicas with the > synch.managedreplicas.append statement with no problem. Then just > for kicks/troubleshooting, I tried to changed the dropbox > directory via code again, and again it failed! > > I can change the dropbox location through the registry but not > through code. I don't get it. If you set it to C:\BlinkDrop in the registry, you'll have non-functioning indirect replication, as that dropbox won't be accessible from any other PC. -- David W. Fenton http://www.dfenton.com/ usenet at dfenton dot com http://www.dfenton.com/DFA/