[Samba] Debian Sarge (testing), Samba 3.0 RC4 and Quickbooks

[rruegner]

as i know samba 3 final can be now apt-get -t testing
so first upgrade, but maybe you should wait for 3.01 cause of
failures with exel were debuged should be a question of days to release
maybe this solves your problem too
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug MacFarlane" <madmac at vauban.com>
To: <kral at aztm.cz>
Cc: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 6:37 PM
Subject: [Samba] Debian Sarge (testing), Samba 3.0 RC4 and Quickbooks


>
> Debian and Samba Teams:
>
> I'm having a really weird problem with Samba 3.0Beta2+RC4 on my Debian
> Sarge (testing) system with Quickbooks Pro 2002 multi-user
> version.
>
> The version of my question is:  Does anybody know what the proper global,
> share, and permissions settings should be to support multi-user Quickbooks
> on a Samba share?
>
> The Long Version:
>
> The Quickbooks data-file resides on it's own samba share (quickbooks), and
all the
> client workstations run Win2K SP4 with Quickbooks Pro 2002.
>
> When we were running Samba 2.2.8, we disabled opportunistic locking on the
> quickbooks share and we had no problems (except for a highly intermittent
> situation where the Quickbooks agent wouldn't "let go" of the quickbooks
> data file eventhough Quickbooks was no longer running as an application).
>
> I upgraded to Samba 3.0Beta2+RC4 accidentally during and apt-get upgrade
> where I upgraded over 90 packages and I missed Samba in the list.  All in
> all, the upgrade was OK, after I ironed out a few kinks.
>
> We have recently experienced two issues, though, with Quickbooks that were
> resolved by a reboot of the system.  I don't like that.  The latter is the
> most disturbing.
>
> Clients were unable to start Quickbooks and recieved the error message
> that "Quickbooks was unable to create the local image file.  You may lack
> permission to create the file, or there may be insufficient space on the
> disk."
>
> Well, I watched the activity on the share (ls -l) as they launched
> Quickbooks, and I saw a 1024 byte image file (username.QbI) created.  So
> they had to have permissions on the share.  And there is 3.5 gb free on
> the volume, so disk space isn't an issue.  After rebooting, they started
> Quickbooks just fine, and their image file was a bit over 100 KB.
>
> The output of testparm indicates an issue between type II locks and
> opportunistic locking:
>
> Invalid combination of parameters for service QuickBooks.  Level II
> oplocks can only be set if oplocks are also set.
>
> The global and quickbooks share portions of smb.conf:
>
> # Global parameters
> [global]
>         workgroup = ORB
>         netbios name = gozer
>         security = user
>         encrypt passwords = true
>         server string = %h server (Samba %v)
>         obey pam restrictions = Yes
>         passdb backend = tdbsam, guest
>         passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
>         passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n
*Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n .
>         unix password sync = Yes
>         syslog = 0
>         log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
>         max log size = 1000
>         time server = Yes
>         logon script = logon.bat
>         logon drive = H:
>         domain logons = Yes
>         logon path = \\%N\%u\profile
>         logon home = \\%N\%u
>         os level = 64
>         preferred master = Yes
>         domain master = Yes
>         local master = Yes
>         dns proxy = No
>         ldap ssl = no
>         panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
>         idmap uid = 10000-20000
>         idmap gid = 10000-20000
>         admin users = root, madmac
>         printing = cups
>         include = /etc/samba/dhcp.conf
>
> [QuickBooks]
>         comment = QuickBooks Data Files
>         path = /home/samba/quickbooks
>         read only = No
>         create mask = 0770
>         directory mask = 0770
>         oplocks = No
>
> Thanks for your assistance.
>
> madmac
>
> madmac at vauban.com
>
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