Jason Pyeron wrote: >> -----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: >> >>> 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. > > >> If someone has figured out a way around this, I would prefer >> to host multiple user QuickBooks access on Samba. >> >> Brett >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> >> > > > > -- > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > - - > - Jason Pyeron PD Inc. http://www.pdinc.us - > - Principal Consultant 10 West 24th Street #100 - > - +1 (443) 269-1555 x333 Baltimore, Maryland 21218 - > - - > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > This message is copyright PD Inc, subject to license 20080407P00. > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > We had QB premier 2004 working well on Samba, then down graded to QB pro 2007 and the nightmare began. 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. Rob -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: rkampen.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 121 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090129/d1361bc0/attachment-0005.vcf>