Quickbooks Data Corruption with Samba...Help

[David W. Chapman Jr.]

This is slightly different, but after I upgraded to the latest alpha
snapshot of samba, I can no longer back up quicken deluxe 2000 onto a samba
share.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Nielsen" <tom at neuro-logic.com>
To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 6:01 PM
Subject: Quickbooks Data Corruption with Samba...Help


> I am having a ton of trouble with data corruption of my quickbooks pro
> 2001 data.  I am having to rebuild the database about twice a week. I
> have the database sitting on a server with RH7 and Samba 2.0.7. Clients
> are on Win2000 and only 3 people access the file during the day, most of
> the time they access it all at the same time. I put the file on one of
> the Win machines for a week and never had a problem. My last attempt at
> running the database on the Linux box lasted 6 hours before I had fatal
> error in Quickbooks.
>
> Here's my global:
>
> # from localhost (127.0.0.1)
> # Date: 2001/02/13 15:24:27
>
> # Global parameters
> [global]
> workgroup = NLS
> netbios name = ZEUS
> server string = Samba Server
> log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
> max log size = 0
> socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
> os level = 65
> preferred master = Yes
> domain master = Yes
> dns proxy = No
> wins support = Yes
> veto oplock files = /*.QBW/*.qbw/*.QBI/*.qbi/
>
> [homes]
> comment = Home Directories
> writeable = Yes
> browseable = No
>
> [printers]
> comment = All Printers
> path = /var/spool/samba
> printable = Yes
> browseable = No
>
> [nls]
> path = /home/nls
> writeable = Yes
> create mask = 0777
> level2 oplocks = Yes
>
> Here's a little more from the smb.conf:
>
>         blocking locks = Yes
> fake oplocks = No
> locking = Yes
> oplocks = Yes
> level2 oplocks = No
> oplock contention limit = 2
> strict locking = No
> share modes = Yes
>         delete veto files=No
>
> Can someone help me? I've run out of ideas and may have to switch to a NT
server if I can't get this figured out. My CEO is starting to breath down my
neck a bit.
>
> Let me know what other information I need to provide.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Tom
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