[Samba] Quickbooks revisited

[Justin Kreger]

On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 20:30, drgn65 at ufl.edu 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?
> 

I'd assume the most recent version of quickbooks pro because of that
forced upgrade bit they do.  Only one user uses quickbooks, I will paste
what he has sent me at the below.  The server has Unison, an nfs share,
two nfs mounts for moving files to other unix servers/monitoring file
locking of unison, and thats about it, basiclly, its a file server and
file gateway to the other unix servers/file storage systems, I just so
happen to have a duplicate server 3000 miles away that won't show in the
browse list (thats something I'm not worried about right now).


Ok, the message I got from the guy who uses quickbooks:

"I am in Quickbooks (the XXXXX-Name-Removed-XXXXX file) and I get an
error
message telling me that Quickbooks has lost the connection (next time it
happens I'll copy the error verbatim).  Then, Quickbooks closes & when I
try
to reopen it, I get an error that Quickbooks is locked by another user.
Eventually, I'll be able to get back in.  It takes anywhere from 10
minutes
to over an hour to release the file."


> -----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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