Bill McGonigle wrote:
Samba doesn't work out-of-the-box with Quickbooks when multiple users
have the database open. You have to do something like, IIRC,:
[share] oplocks = No
level2 oplocks = No
strict locking = Yes
That may have been true in Samba 2.0.x some time ago.
I had various oplock problems back then with many programs.
I haven't had any in recent years. Even then, I was able to run
QuickBooks multiuser without any problems on a Samba 2.0.x platform.
and that means editing system files, and that means explaining vi or
emacs keybindings to someone on the phone and, well, you can
understand their position. It's hard for them to say, "we support
Linux servers but not if you're clueless," so they just say, "we only
support Windows servers." So, people with Linux servers lie and say
they've got an NT4 fileserver if it comes up.
I simply said we had a "Windows-compatible server" and Intuit always
accepted that. For about 5 years we were a beta tester for QuickBooks,
we always told them that we were running on a Linux server. They never
added it to their supported platform list. (Well, one year, they had a
tech note saying QuickBooks had been reported to work well under Linux.
The note was removed later.)
One of our contacts for beta testing said that the issue was more that
they (Intuit) received so many support calls which were actually general
computer problems (printer is out of paper, hard drive is full, etc.),
that they simply didn't have the staffing to support those sorts of
questions under another operating system - for which they would have to
train support staff. He said their support staff could handle the basic
questions, but would have to escalate any general Linux questions to a
higher level tech - and they didn't have enough of those to go around as
it stood. Of course, Linux was a bit less mature then and I never
accepted this explanation wholely.
In any event, an open source equivalent to QuickBooks would be very
useful to us. We sometimes write application software which needs some
accounting functionality, or needs to integrate with an accounting
solution. QuickBooks was never easy to interface with. Nor could you
extract the features you wanted, but skip the rest. So far we haven't
found what we want in the open source packages. Though they are
improving.
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Dan Jenkins ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Rastech Inc., Bedford, NH, USA --- 1-603-206-9951
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