FYI, an running MYOB Premier 4.5+ at a clients premises. The Head Office (Syd) has 5 accounts people, with another 2 connect via VPN from Melb., with another 2 from Qld via VPN as well.
Clients are M$ W98. File Server: Turbolinux 6.5 running samba (PCD) Firewall/routers: TL6.5 VPN: FreeS/WAN over ADSL This site has been up and running for over 9mths with no corruption so far. regards Michael Sztachanski Snr. Tech. Engineer cell: 0410 547593 ---------- Russell Ashdown wrote: > Netware incorporates proprietary system calls that can be utilised > by developers for file locking. date retrieval and many other > functions. If you are using mars-nwe the Netware server emulator, > it may be that not all these system calls are supported. The calls > themselves have changed since Netware 3.11 (which mars-nwe > emulates). This may be the source of your problem. > > Further, if this is the source of your problem, and you are able to > get a test system running MYOB, it is likely that if MYOB works > fine with a single workstation it will not ALWAYS work well in multi- > user mode, it is important that you emulate the customers > environment. You will need to test using simultaneous input from > multiple workstations, and attempt to cause "file read/write > collisions". While I have no knowledge of MYOB, my experience > with other databases running on Netware servers indicates that file > locking failure (and file unlocking failure) is a major cause of > database corruption and "deadly embrace" causing user abort and > further file and database corruption. > > Sad as it may seem, if MYOB will NOT support their product on a > Linux server running a Netware emulator, you would be very foolish > to proceed. File corruption in an accounting database can be > extremely costly for the client (and, ultimately for you if you > recommend they ignore MYOB and proceed). > > Why not downsize (remove all applications) the existing Netware > server and leave ONLY MYOB on it? Then install a second, more > powerful Linux machine configured as a mars-nwe server, to which > the users could authenticate and use as the general purpose > fileserver/applications server. To my mind that would be the safest > alternative and should earn you kudos from your customer. > > On 2 Jan 2002, at 17:29, Vince Meissner wrote about: > [SLUG] Linux not suitable as a fileserver for MYO > > >>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= > > <snip> > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
