Why Intuit should have an Open Source version of QuickBooks...

[Benjamin Scott]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, at 9:16pm, bill at bfccomputing.com wrote:
> Samba doesn't work out-of-the-box with Quickbooks when multiple users 
> have the database open.  You have to do something like, IIRC,:
> 
> [share]
>          oplocks = No
>          level2 oplocks = No
>          strict locking = Yes

  Intuit "strongly recommends" (read: do this, or QuickBooks will eat your
company data file on a daily basis, as opposed to randomly) that you do the
same (disable oplocks) on Windows servers, BTW.  Except you have to edit
some obscure registry entry to do it.

> So, people with Linux servers lie and say they've got an NT4 fileserver if
> it comes up.

  I am shocked -- *shocked* -- that you would suggest that I -- I mean,
people -- would do such a thing.  ;-)

-- 
Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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