Re: Quickbooks and Samba and Oplocks... OH MY

[Rob Kampen <rkampen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

John wrote:

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Jason Pyeron wrote:
    

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On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Tim Nelson 
<tnelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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