Steve, Sorry. MYOB permier version 5 is latest.. I was thinking of their other dummed down product. MYOB Accounting that's version 11 now.
God we shouldn't be talking about commercial products on the list I know. More to the point commercial applications that access databases over SMB shouldn't be trusted with Linux on my opinion. I've seen a Samba server shred an address plus database at my work with thousand of contacts. We did it as a test because it was rumored to have happened at other offices overseas. This sort of problem has been happening for years. Before Samba was big, I remember in 97 Novell used to do the same thing with packet signing with some dos applications that wrote to data files. The problem then too was to do with locking over the network. Luke -----Original Message----- From: Steven Evans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 7 January 2002 6:56 PM To: 'Luke McKee' Subject: RE: [SLUG] Linux not suitable as a fileserver for MYOB ??? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 lol ;) > -----Original Message----- > From: Luke McKee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, 7 January 2002 6:55 PM > To: Steven Evans > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [SLUG] Linux not suitable as a fileserver for MYOB ??? > > > Steven, > > Just the be more precise. > NetBIOS over TCP/IP. > > They code it in NetBIOS so it works over IPX, TCP/IP, NETBEUI > whatever crap > is laying around. Hey isn't that a really old version of MYOB you > have there?.. I think I've found another excuse for you to pay > money? Commercial > non-plug... > > Luke > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Steven Evans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, 7 January 2002 6:52 PM > To: 'Luke McKee' > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [SLUG] Linux not suitable as a fileserver for MYOB ??? > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > The workstations use MYOB Premier 5.0.2 (atleast, they get update > notices via email and download the patches over the web). > > The workstations have been told to use TCP/IP as the communications > method. > > Not enough money, sorry, maybe these features/bugs are fixed in > MYOB Accountants office, maybe? If i had enough time to code a > linux-based myob solution, i would think about it ... > > Cheers, > Steve > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Luke McKee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Monday, 7 January 2002 4:26 PM > > To: Steven Evans > > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > > Subject: RE: [SLUG] Linux not suitable as a fileserver for MYOB > > ??? > > > > > > > > >Very unstable format to store data, imho. > > > > No it's commercial marketing. They want you to buy the > > commercial Premiere > > edition where only one user locks the file and shares it through > > a proprietary NETBIOS protocol? So how much money have you got > > to solve this > > problem? > > > > This is not a plug for MYOB :-) > > > > Luke > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Steven Evans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Monday, 7 January 2002 1:50 PM > > To: 'Michael Sztachanski' > > Cc: 'Grant Parnell'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: [SLUG] Linux not suitable as a fileserver for MYOB > > ??? > > > > > > -- > > SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGP 7.0.1 > > iQA/AwUBPDlTixMcfLgR5MndEQKtVQCePbkth2FhB3T3H6ePlfgpntGU2XMAoIAi > h68JW9b2oJYyRV6+MkjQ0pMs > =gRPI > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 7.0.1 iQA/AwUBPDlUcBMcfLgR5MndEQIOWgCfWNfymcJ4ocYK1vAqCU2bzLBIj7sAoPTk IiTz91VhIlj8kNmnqoeaX20e =vOeH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
