On Saturday 04 October 2003 05:53, G�bor Dukai wrote: > Hello! > I have a small office network (4-6 clients), where we have to use a > Clipper-based program for bookeeping. First, we used an old NetWare as a > server, then I replaced it with linux+Samba. It worked for a month but > we had some corruption in the databases. Browsing the Net for a new > solution I have found an interesting one which was discussed on this > list a year ago or so. Now the server runs multiple instances of dosemu > and the clients access them through X. Now we have no corruption but it > gets really slow around 4 clients connected (with 1-2 clients dosemu > runs well). Is it possible to speed it up somehow (new hardware?) or I > have found a theorically wrong solution again? > > > Thank you for your help, > G�bor Dukai
The corruption of the databases you had with linux/samba is probably due to file sharing/locking problems. We have tested file locking/sharing with dosemu 1.1.5.0 and freedos kernel.sys 2032 (no share.exe needed for dosemu) using nfs mounted network drives with linux/dosemu clients. File sharing/locking works well with this configuration We are not using clipper, but if clipper supports multiuser file locking/sharing it should work. We have not tested locking with samba mounted network drives. --John - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
