[plug] MYOB using Linux as a fileserver

[navarre at omen.net.au]

Hello Paul

It is my understanding that MYOB requires NETbuie, (that Micro$ protocol) 
to function. If I an correct that could be causing your lock file
problem.

Regards Navarre <navarre at omen.net.au>

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> I just know that this is going to sound daft, but it has to be asked anyway
> !!
> 
> I've installed a Linux server at a clients office, in part, to hold the MYOB
> data files that they use.  When the data is shared from a Win95 box, MYOB
> works with no unexpected probs (i.e. license issues that the customer
> understands).  However, move the files over to the Linux box to a partition
> that samba offers over the network and suddenly things start to go wrong.
> 
> MYOB has a peculiar attitude to lock files - in theory there's one per
> active user, when the number of lock files equals the number of licensed
> users, no-one else can use the system until one disconnects.  OK so far, but
> on Linux, it only creates a single lock file, but that file holds data about
> who's connected, and the data changes when people disconnect.  However, the
> real killer is that now MYOB will only let one person use the system at
> once, and claims that either the disk is full or there's an access problem
> with the lock file.
> 
> Now the disk certainly isn't full, and the lock file has been given 666
> permissions so that anyone can read & write to it.  MYOB still wasn't happy,
> so I tried making the directory 777 !!  No change - still a single user
> system.
> 
> The lock file owner is one of the MYOB users, and I've even emptied it
> (later I deleted it in case it's existance was causing trouble).
> 
> MYOB support get a bit snotty when you mention Linux ("we don't support
> Linux, sorry") and can't/won't help.  So, has anyone out there in plug-land
> got sufficient experience with MYOB to make *any* useful suggestions?
> 
> Hopefully,
> 
> Paul Wilson
> 
> 
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