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

[Benjamin Scott]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, at 9:50pm, dan at rastech.com wrote:
> Even then, I was able to run QuickBooks multiuser without any problems on
> a Samba 2.0.x platform.

  How often did you run a consistency check on your company file?

  One of the really <SARCASM>wonderful</SARCASM> things about QuickBooks is
that when it starts eating data, it doesn't always give you an error
message.  It just produces the wrong answers.

  As long as you keep oplocks turned off, we find QuickBooks works as well
with Samba as with Windows.  Not that that's saying much.  Turn them on, and
you're virtually guaranteed to have trouble.

  QuickBooks isn't the only program which reacts badly to oplocks.  
Microsoft Access tends to have the same problem (with multi-user access).  
I image other things, too.  I always configure a separate share for anything
that even smells like a database, and disable oplocks (and enable strict
sync and strict locking) on that share.

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