[CentOS] Quickbooks and Samba and Oplocks... OH MY

[Rob Kampen]

Sorry for the delayed response, needed to dreg the memory banks

John wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
>> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Rob Kampen
>> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 4:30 PM
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>> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Quickbooks and Samba and Oplocks... OH MY
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>> Jason Pyeron wrote:
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>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
>>>> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Brett Serkez
>>>> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 11:55
>>>> To: CentOS mailing list
>>>> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Quickbooks and Samba and Oplocks... OH MY
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Tim Nelson 
>>>> <tnelson at rockbochs.com> wrote:
>>>>         
>> Long story - short version is we now run QB Pro 2007 on a 
>> CentOS 5 W/S 
>> running VirtualBox and a W2K instance with network bridging in 
>> multi-user mode so the four Windoze XP clients can access it.
>> Performance is not great but adequate, however I can backup 
>> reliably and 
>> it stays up 24x7.
>> Wish there was an alternative.
>>     
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> So exactly what is the problem about running that version on Samba? What
> Samba configurations did you try if any?
>
> JohnStanley
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QB2004 was happy to have multiple users access the QB file at the same 
time in multi-user mode and thus the QB file could be hosted on Samba 
with no issues.
QB2007 insists that one machine become the "server" of the file for the 
other users in multi user mode. (where did their software architects 
learn their stuff?) Thus one needs to designate one of the five 
multi-user licensed machines as a "server". In my case, I wanted to host 
the QB server and of course I am running linux - hence the setup I 
described above.
Rob
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