[Samba] Quickbooks revisited

[Mark]

I recall the issue with quickbooks (and a fix) from a
comp.os.linux.security post from last year. I am not sure if will help
in this particular case, but take a look.

http://tinyurl.com/eowl

Regards,
Mark

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From: samba-bounces+lists=greplinux.dyndns.org at lists.samba.org
[mailto:samba-bounces+lists=greplinux.dyndns.org at lists.samba.org] On
Behalf Of Tom McKellips
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 9:18 PM
To: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: RE: [Samba] Quickbooks revisited


On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 20:30:26 -0400, drgn65 wrote
> 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
> 
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I have to agree, we use QB also and it is crap when it comes to
networking 
it. I have set Samba in various configs and QB does not seem to improve.

Maybee we all need to put a big letter together signed by all of the
Linux 
users demanding Intuit to improve this product, remove the constant ads
and 
compile it for the Linux desktop... It's a nice dream at least.

Tom
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