On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 05:29:59PM +1100, Vince Meissner wrote: > I've got a client that uses MYOB Accountant's Office. > It's a multi-user practice managment, time billing, invoicing type > program.
An Accountant needing a special version of MYOB to run thier own practise? Oooh the irony... =) > They're looking at replacing their existing Novell server which is at > the end of it's life. > I had them sold on the idea of a Linux based server until we discovered > this little gem from MYOB's support pages. > Upon reading this I immediately thought "What the !?" > Lets not worry about all those thousands of businesses sucessfully using > Linux as a filesserver, > this one program doesn't work with it and of course it's a Linux problem > ? > Wouldn't be sloppy coding of the program would it by any chance would > it? My guess is this- It is not Samba which is the problem but it is other filesharing systems such as NFS which do not have the needed file/record locking. They probably want to discourage as much cross-platform configurations as possible in order to reduce end-user support costs. It is not very logical that it works with a *OLD* Novell server but not with a newer filesharing OS/protocol. Regards, Jon -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
