[ale] question about SAMBA and a windows program called ACT

[Alan Dobkin]

Van,

With most shared database-type products like ACT, they should
work fine on Samba, as long as you create a separate share for
the database files and turn off opportunistic locking.  This
allows the database program to do its own locking internally
and avoid Samba from getting in the way.  You can turn it off
with one or more of the following configuration options:

oplocks = no
level2 oplocks = no
kernel oplocks = no

You may have to do a little more research/experimentation to
determine exactly which of these settings (or all) you need
to make the ACT database run happily on Samba.  I just did a
quick Google search for "ACT Samba oplocks" and found this:

http://itdomino.act.com/act.nsf/docid/200110485036

That pretty much seems to confirm what I just said above.

Good luck!

Alan

--On Friday, September 03, 2004 8:24 AM -0400 Van Loggins 
<vloggins at turbocorp.com> wrote:

> I have a company who is needing a "server" for their network
> to host the ACT contact database program.
>
> Do you think that the ACT software work ok if it is executed
> and run from a SAMBA file share as opposed to running it off
> of a Windows 2000 or NT 4.0 server. it is a 5 user copy and
> will have 5 people using the software at the same time. If
> it was only going to be 1 or 2 users I would just have them
> run it from a windows file share on one of their PCs.
>
> This company is on a very tight budget and really can't afford to pay
> me for my time to set up this "server" plus the costs of
> Windows server software. If I can save the day by using Linux, I am
> confident that they will see the benefits of using Linux
> instead of Windows on their systems.
>
> Their workstations are running Windows XP Home edition (yuckie!!!)  if
> this makes any difference. thanks for any thoughts or information you can
> give me about
> this subject.
>
> Thanks again
>
> Van