Is this MYOB plain or MYOB Premier? I haven't had the chance to try MYOB on a Linux server as the one client of mine who uses MYOB Premier has just ditched me because he wanted to upgrade to a M$ SBS server and I wasn't prepared to recommend it to him. I guess the new consultant will have the chance to fleece him big time for supporting M$.
What I have been successful with though is Attache on Linux and they say that that is not supported on Linux, but it works fine. The only caveat is that shitty M$ programs are very non-deterministic about whether they generate file names in upper or lower case. It doesn't matter to M$ but it does matter to Linux. When doing a system compression in Attache this can cause new files to be created with a case that is different from the old files. When Attache next gets run it is non-deterministic about which file it uses, the upper case or the lower case file. As you can imagine this can stuff things up big time. The answer is to make Samba force the case, which is not difficult. I wouldn't mind betting that this sort of problem is why MYOB say that it is not supported on Linux, and that it is not a locking problem at all. All I know, is my client whom I switched his Attache from a M$ server to a Linux server couldn't be happier. On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, 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. > > 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. > > ****************************************** > Question > Is Accountants Office supported on a Linux Server? > > Answer > No, Linux is not a compatible Network Operating System for Accountants > Office because of > fundamental incompatibilies in file and record locking within Linux and > is therefore not supported > under any circumstances. > > Link: > >http://myobaustralia.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/myobaustralia.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_sid=*kRtyb4g&p_lva=010130-000051&p_refno=010130-000051&p_created=980896579&p_sp=cF9ncmlkc29ydD0mcF9yb3dfY250PTImcF9zZWFyY2hfdGV4dD1saW51eCZwX3NlYXJjaF90eXBlPTYmcF9wcm9kX2x2bDE9OSZwX3Byb2RfbHZsMj1_YW55fiZwX2NhdF9sdmwxPX5hbnl_JnBfc29ydF9ieT1kZmx0JnBfcGFnZT0x&p_li= > > ****************************************** > > > 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? > > Comments anyone ? > > > -Vince > > > -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people Contact detail at http://www.lannetlinux.com "We are either doing something, or we are not. 'Talking about' is a subset of 'not'." -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
