Hello fellow admins, one last desperate report from my btrieve efforts: Obviously, when you access a btrieve *.DAT file, the equivalent locks are recorded in a equally named *.LCK file. Unfortunately, I have failed to find any samba parameters which have enabled files stored on samba shared to be handled this way. In detail setting strict locking = yes didn't solve the cause. I talked to the developers and they simply say they don't recommend using Unix as a backend. Great. Very helpful. But as I see it, at the moment it's impossible to combine a btrieve-workstation-based application with Samba. Since these applications are (unfortunately) quite common, I would really like to see the FAQ entry I have been looking for. If anybody had a working solution, I'd be sincerely surprised. I'd surely love to hear it, but at the moment I simply have to resign and migrate to Netware with these customers, which really frustrates me. I'd say, least we could do is warn others so they don't get confronted with inconsistent databases, too. Cheers, Jan -- Radio HUNDERT,6 Medien GmbH Berlin - EDV - j.muenther@radio.hundert6.de
I did a google (www.google.com) search for btrieve and samba and came across an post by someone who had solved his btrieve problems with Peachtree Accounting. I hope it helps. At 04:53 PM 9/4/00 +0200, you wrote:>Hello fellow admins, >one last desperate report from my btrieve efforts: > >Obviously, when you access a btrieve *.DAT file, the equivalent >locks are recorded in a equally named *.LCK file. > >Unfortunately, I have failed to find any samba parameters which >have enabled files stored on samba shared to be handled this way. >In detail setting strict locking = yes didn't solve the cause. > >I talked to the developers and they simply say they don't >recommend using Unix as a backend. Great. Very helpful. > >But as I see it, at the moment it's impossible to combine a >btrieve-workstation-based application with Samba. Since these >applications are (unfortunately) quite common, I would really >like to see the FAQ entry I have been looking for. > >If anybody had a working solution, I'd be sincerely surprised. >I'd surely love to hear it, but at the moment I simply have to >resign and migrate to Netware with these customers, which really >frustrates me. I'd say, least we could do is warn others so they >don't get confronted with inconsistent databases, too. > >Cheers, Jan >-- >Radio HUNDERT,6 Medien GmbH Berlin >- EDV - >j.muenther@radio.hundert6.de- _______________________________________________ Kourosh Ghassemieh MindWare Information Systems & Technologies 9255 Sunset Blvd, Penthouse West Hollywood CA 90069 (310) 729-1784, (310) 271-9807 fax kourosh@loop.com ++++++Networking the Small Business++++++
Kourosh Ghassemieh <kourosh@loop.com> wrote: | I did a google (www.google.com) search for btrieve and samba and | came across an post by someone who had solved his btrieve | problems with Peachtree Accounting. I hope it helps. The posting was from http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/samba-ntdom/1999-April/004243.html and said: --- I am storing peachtree accounting software on a samba server also this is what i used to get around the strange locks and so forth... made a unix group called peach and added valid users to that group and gave correct permissions to the unix path and added this to my smb.conf i don't know if this a correct way to approach this but it gives everyone r/w access to the dir that belongs to the peachtree group [peach] comment = Peachtree path=/home/peach writeable = yes valid users = @peach printable = no browseable = no force group = peach create mask = 0770 force create mode = 0000 directory mask =0770 force directory mode = 0000 -Bryan O'Shea, bryan.oshea@usa-emotron.com