On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 13:41 -0500, Jason Pyeron wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@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@rockbochs.com wrote:
It is widely known that Quickbooks has a horrible storage
engine, "requires" Windows to host multiuser access, etc. However, I've successfully been storing QuickBooks files on Samba shares at a handful of locations with no real issues other than slight performance degradation. However, a somewhat recent thread here mentioned the proper use of oplock'ing in the Samba configuration to considerably increase performance/reliability.
I am able to host all files other than Quickbooks on Samba shares. The issue with QuickBooks is they run their own WIndows service on port 10172 in addition to Windows file sharing.
We run QB Pro 2003, and it does not listen on any ports. We also have it on a samba share. Unsure about the perfomance, but it works for us.
---- They've made a bunch (and I mean a bunch) of changes since then. It's multi-user scheme seems to change with each new version.
Craig