Casey Dinsmore wrote:> Anyhow I have experienced some strange things and wonder if there might > be a option that I don't know to set that may fix the strange > occourances we've been having.. Quickbooks Pro 6.0 can run in a > multi-user mode, in which up to 5 users can work on the datafile > simultainously. > My share is as follows.> locking = noThis looks seriously bad!> Now some users are experiencing some weird errors, and they are > different. One user when trying to update a packing list would get > exception errors, while another use while trying to update a purchase > order quickbooks would abort with a error like (QB60 R4 m=1048 l=4045 > c=265 v=-1 FFFFFF). Has anyone had any experience with something like > this?No, but you do need locking turned on for PC applicatioons to be able to do locking, a prerequisite for multi-user operation. -dave [Ps: redirected to samba@samba.org, as this is more of a useage question than a developers' discussuon] -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify some people 185 Ellerslie Ave., | and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain Willowdale, Ontario | //www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/author.html Work: (905) 415-2849 Home: (416) 223-8968 Email: davecb@canada.sun.com
> -----Original Message----- > From: David Collier-Brown [SMTP:David.Collier-Brown@canada.sun.com] > Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 1:11 PM > To: Casey Dinsmore; samba@samba.org > Cc: samba-technical@samba.org > Subject: Re: Quickbooks Pro 6.0 file sharing with samba > > Casey Dinsmore wrote: > > Anyhow I have experienced some strange things and wonder if there > might > > be a option that I don't know to set that may fix the strange > > occourances we've been having.. Quickbooks Pro 6.0 can run in a > > multi-user mode, in which up to 5 users can work on the datafile > > simultainously. > > My share is as follows. > > > locking = no > > This looks seriously bad! > > Why? > > > Now some users are experiencing some weird errors, and they are > > different. One user when trying to update a packing list would get > > exception errors, while another use while trying to update a > purchase > > order quickbooks would abort with a error like (QB60 R4 m=1048 > l=4045 > > c=265 v=-1 FFFFFF). Has anyone had any experience with something > like > > this? > > No, but you do need locking turned on for PC > applicatioons to be able to do locking, a prerequisite > for multi-user operation. > > If locking isnt turned off, then it will not work in multi-user mode, > one person will be able to open up the datafile, and the rest will > report that the datafile is not a valid quickbooks datafile or is > corrupted. > > > -dave > [Ps: redirected to samba@samba.org, as this is more of a useage > question than a developers' discussuon] > -- > David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify some people > 185 Ellerslie Ave., | and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain > Willowdale, Ontario | //www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/author.html > Work: (905) 415-2849 Home: (416) 223-8968 Email: davecb@canada.sun.com
Casey Dinsmore wrote:> If locking isnt turned off, then it will not work in multi-user mode, > one person will be able to open up the datafile, and the rest will > report that the datafile is not a valid quickbooks datafile or is > corrupted.Then quickbooks is using a "private" locking scheme that interacts badly with the standard Windows locks, which Samba supplies. You're probably going to have to look at packet dumps and reverse-engineer it to find out what's gone wrong. Is there a Quickbooks mailing list? Someone may have seen this before... --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify some people 185 Ellerslie Ave., | and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain Willowdale, Ontario | //www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/author.html Work: (905) 415-2849 Home: (416) 223-8968 Email: davecb@canada.sun.com