as i know samba 3 final can be now apt-get -t testing so first upgrade, but maybe you should wait for 3.01 cause of failures with exel were debuged should be a question of days to release maybe this solves your problem too ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug MacFarlane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 6:37 PM Subject: [Samba] Debian Sarge (testing), Samba 3.0 RC4 and Quickbooks
> > Debian and Samba Teams: > > I'm having a really weird problem with Samba 3.0Beta2+RC4 on my Debian > Sarge (testing) system with Quickbooks Pro 2002 multi-user > version. > > The version of my question is: Does anybody know what the proper global, > share, and permissions settings should be to support multi-user Quickbooks > on a Samba share? > > The Long Version: > > The Quickbooks data-file resides on it's own samba share (quickbooks), and all the > client workstations run Win2K SP4 with Quickbooks Pro 2002. > > When we were running Samba 2.2.8, we disabled opportunistic locking on the > quickbooks share and we had no problems (except for a highly intermittent > situation where the Quickbooks agent wouldn't "let go" of the quickbooks > data file eventhough Quickbooks was no longer running as an application). > > I upgraded to Samba 3.0Beta2+RC4 accidentally during and apt-get upgrade > where I upgraded over 90 packages and I missed Samba in the list. All in > all, the upgrade was OK, after I ironed out a few kinks. > > We have recently experienced two issues, though, with Quickbooks that were > resolved by a reboot of the system. I don't like that. The latter is the > most disturbing. > > Clients were unable to start Quickbooks and recieved the error message > that "Quickbooks was unable to create the local image file. You may lack > permission to create the file, or there may be insufficient space on the > disk." > > Well, I watched the activity on the share (ls -l) as they launched > Quickbooks, and I saw a 1024 byte image file (username.QbI) created. So > they had to have permissions on the share. And there is 3.5 gb free on > the volume, so disk space isn't an issue. After rebooting, they started > Quickbooks just fine, and their image file was a bit over 100 KB. > > The output of testparm indicates an issue between type II locks and > opportunistic locking: > > Invalid combination of parameters for service QuickBooks. Level II > oplocks can only be set if oplocks are also set. > > The global and quickbooks share portions of smb.conf: > > # Global parameters > [global] > workgroup = ORB > netbios name = gozer > security = user > encrypt passwords = true > server string = %h server (Samba %v) > obey pam restrictions = Yes > passdb backend = tdbsam, guest > passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u > passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n . > unix password sync = Yes > syslog = 0 > log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m > max log size = 1000 > time server = Yes > logon script = logon.bat > logon drive = H: > domain logons = Yes > logon path = \\%N\%u\profile > logon home = \\%N\%u > os level = 64 > preferred master = Yes > domain master = Yes > local master = Yes > dns proxy = No > ldap ssl = no > panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d > idmap uid = 10000-20000 > idmap gid = 10000-20000 > admin users = root, madmac > printing = cups > include = /etc/samba/dhcp.conf > > [QuickBooks] > comment = QuickBooks Data Files > path = /home/samba/quickbooks > read only = No > create mask = 0770 > directory mask = 0770 > oplocks = No > > Thanks for your assistance. > > madmac > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba