IBM ThinkPads not able to open oracle databases after up grade to

#1 (**permalink**) 28-Jul-2006, 08:41 AM

In a corp enviornment, we upgraded from Office 2K to Office 2K3 and all
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seemed to be fine. However, it seems there is an issue with our IBM ThinkPad
users opening databases, but not with the same roll out and our Desktop
Users. When the Thinkpad T40/43 try to open a database they receive an
error msg that Access encountered an error and needs to close down, and or it
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gives the option to try to repair the database. However, when a user IBM
desktop user access these same database they open successfully.. Are there
know issues and fixes for this..? Any ideas would be appreciated..

thanks in advance

david

#2 (**permalink**) 28-Jul-2006, 08:41 AM

I am using an IBM ThinkPad and have had no issues.

Are you uptodate with all service packs for both the operating system and
Office?

--
Joan Wild
Microsoft Access MVP

dwt wrote:
> In a corp enviornment, we upgraded from Office 2K to Office 2K3 and
> all seemed to be fine. However, it seems there is an issue with our
> IBM ThinkPad users opening databases, but not with the same roll out
> and our Desktop Users. When the Thinkpad T40/43 try to open a
> database they receive an error msg that Access encountered an error
> and needs to close down, and or it gives the option to try to repair
> the database. However, when a user IBM desktop user access these same
> database they open successfully.. Are there know issues and fixes for
> this..? Any ideas would be appreciated..
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>
> thanks in advance
>
> david

#3 (**permalink**) 28-Jul-2006, 08:42 AM

Joan

Are you using Oracble ODBC drivers to access Oracle db's ? that's where the
issue seesm to be.
I will say that the Desktop units are at XP SP1 and the Laptops are at XP
SP2, so it could have something to do with SP2..

Any other suggestions..

d

"Joan Wild" wrote:

> I am using an IBM ThinkPad and have had no issues.
>
> Are you uptodate with all service packs for both the operating system and
> Office?
>
> --
> Joan Wild
> Microsoft Access MVP
>
> dwt wrote:
> > In a corp enviornment, we upgraded from Office 2K to Office 2K3 and
> > all seemed to be fine. However, it seems there is an issue with our
> > IBM ThinkPad users opening databases, but not with the same roll out
> > and our Desktop Users. When the Thinkpad T40/43 try to open a
> > database they receive an error msg that Access encountered an error
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> > and needs to close down, and or it gives the option to try to repair
> > the database. However, when a user IBM desktop user access these same
> > database they open successfully.. Are there know issues and fixes for
> > this..? Any ideas would be appreciated..
> >
> > thanks in advance
> >
> > david
>
>
>

#4 (**permalink**) 28-Jul-2006, 08:42 AM

Sorry, I missed the part about Oracle.

have you checked Oracle's website?

--
Joan Wild
Microsoft Access MVP

dwt wrote:
> Joan
>
> Are you using Oracble ODBC drivers to access Oracle db's ? that's
> where the issue seesm to be.
> I will say that the Desktop units are at XP SP1 and the Laptops are
> at XP SP2, so it could have something to do with SP2..
>
> Any other suggestions..
>
> d
>
> "Joan Wild" wrote:
>
>> I am using an IBM ThinkPad and have had no issues.
>>
>> Are you uptodate with all service packs for both the operating
>> system and Office?
>>
>> --
>> Joan Wild
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>> Microsoft Access MVP
>>
>> dwt wrote:
>>> In a corp enviornment, we upgraded from Office 2K to Office 2K3 and
>>> all seemed to be fine. However, it seems there is an issue with our
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>>> IBM ThinkPad users opening databases, but not with the same roll out
>>> and our Desktop Users. When the Thinkpad T40/43 try to open a
>>> database they receive an error msg that Access encountered an error
>>> and needs to close down, and or it gives the option to try to repair
>>> the database. However, when a user IBM desktop user access these
>>> same database they open successfully.. Are there know issues and
>>> fixes for this..? Any ideas would be appreciated..
>>>
>>> thanks in advance
>>>
>>> david