Set up a share that only handles Simply Accounting and add these lines to it. kernel oplocks = No oplocks = No level2 oplocks = No
XP wiped out an Access database for one of my clients until this list helped me figure it out. Working with a *COPY* of your data, have 2 XP computers try to open the same record at the same time, several times and see what happens. If your data survives, you're set. Samba 2.2.7a is better. I hope this helps. Tomas Florian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*: > >Hello, > >I have recently migrated my Win NT4 server to Linux with Samba 2.2.5 :-) >One of the applications we need to run is Simply Accounting 9.0 / 2003 in >multi-user mode. The company that makes Simply Accounting sais the data >must be shared from Win NT,2000 or XP but sharing it through Win 95,98 or >Samba could corrupt it. I know that Simply Accounting stores the data in >.SDB database file shared by all users with the usual .LDB lock file. I >have also seen lot of posts about problems with multiuser database access to >a MS Access database through Samba. Has anyone succesfully ran Simply >Accounting from a samba share? What are the things I should watch out for >to avoid data corruption? How can I test if the multiuser database is safe >and can not be corrupted? > >Thanks, > >Tomas Florian >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
