Quickbooks Data Corruption with Samba...Help

[Kevin Whitney]

	I had a problem with a backup product and
	Quickbooks.  It seems that the DOS archive
	bit was important to Quickbooks, and if
	it was not in the right state, the file
	was forced into recovery mode.

	The fix was to restore the DOS archive bit
	to whatever it was before I ran the backup
	program (probably set).

	Regards,
	Kevin Whitney
	

John Supplee wrote:
> 
> Have you tried setting strict locking = yes.  Maybe Quickbooks is not well
> behaved.  It is multi-user app, right?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-admin at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-admin at lists.samba.org]On
> Behalf Of Tom Nielsen
> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 7:02 PM
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> 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