Jason Pyeron wrote:
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[mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Craig White
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 15:52
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Subject: Re: Quickbooks and Samba and Oplocks... OH MY
On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 13:41 -0500, Jason Pyeron wrote:
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[mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Brett Serkez
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 11:55
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Subject: Re: Quickbooks and Samba and Oplocks... OH MY
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Tim Nelson
<tnelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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.
Yeah, we are looking to migrate away for just this reason. It changes away from
what you need every upgrade.
Anyone else in a consulting/law firm/software dev shop who is a governemnt
contractor that needs to do cost accounting and wants it to be hosted on a linux
server? Let me know, we are going to have to do some thing else soon.
BTW, we just found out the Turbo Tax 2008 does not work with older version of
Quickbooks today.
Beware - they tell you QB2007 needs XP and will not work under W2K -
this is rubbish, they just act as another marketing arm for Redmond.
Also this year with Turbo Tax 2008 they warn it will be the last year it
will work on W2K, let's wait and see.....
Rob
Craig
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