[Samba] Quickbooks revisited

[drgn65 at ufl.edu]

I don't know what your setup is but here is mine.
I run samba 2.2.7.  I don't use oplocks on my share that QuickBooks is on.
You most definately don't want to.  Other than that I have a pretty basic
setup.  I did not notice any difference between the file on my linux server
(primary file server) or on a Win2000 Server share.  What version of
QuickBooks are you using?  How many users on your network?  How many users
accessing QuickBooks?  Does your linux server run a lot of other server
daemons?

-----Original Message-----
From: Justin Kreger [mailto:jkreger at lwolenczak.net]
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 10:28 PM
To: drgn65 at ufl.edu
Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [Samba] Quickbooks revisited


What about file locking?

I've run into lots of file locking problems, leading me to slowly just
turn off file locking on several shares due to quickbooks.  My user also
reports that quickbooks is now slower since I took the server to
linux/samba from the win2k server that was limited to .

On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 16:03, drgn65 at ufl.edu wrote:
> I have QucikBooks on our network too.  I have had a number of problems
with
> this crappy software.  If my client actually wanted me too I'd rather
create
> my own accounting software with a better interface and a mysql backend but
> that isn't going to happen.  A few things with QuickBooks that I have
> noticed that maybe will help.
>
> #1. QuickBooks in multi-user mode is much slower than in single user mode.
> This is the (crappy) design of QuickBooks.  It has to do with the fact
that
> QuickBooks checks everything everywhere when in multiuser mode to make
sure
> that no data gets corrupted (even though it has corrupted before).  Our
> company datafile is around ~180mb.
>
> #2. This problem will not be solved easily at all.  Quickbooks appears to
be
> as slow as the weakest client link.  In our case a P2 300 w/ 64 megs of
ram.
> Again, this has to do with #1.
>
> #3. Upgrading Quickbooks won't help.  We've had many versions in the past
> and currently run the "Enterprise Edition."  It still can be as slow as a
> turtle under certain operations.
>
> #4. My biggest complain with this software is that it requires it's users
to
> be "Power Users."  Boy do I hate that.... With samba it's very difficult
for
> me to limit a Power user's ability and I have had people take advantge of
it
> repeatedly.  Damn QuickBooks....
>
> -Peter