[PLUG] Access and Samba

[Roderick A. Anderson]

On Sat, 7 Sep 2002, Carla Schroder wrote:

> In theory it sounds reasonable- but this is Access we're dealing with. It's 
> their customer order database, so no funky solutions permitted! 
> 
> I found there are utilities to convert .mdb to PostgreSQL and mySQL, that 
> sounds way better to me. Use Access only as a front-end on the client PCs.

On the PostgreSQL lists ther have been several reports of this working
well if they haven't written the SQL too Microsofty-ish.

I've had a little dealing with sharing a database using SAMBA.  In this
case it was for MAS90 and an almost antique version of RHL (6.1) and the
then current version of SAMBA and friends.  I get reports of file
corruptions every few weeks typically a file that can be restored from a
copy they have on floppy disk.  The person that set up the system _really_
had to tweak SAMBA trying to get rid of the majo file corruption problems.
   Sine I'm a sub for support I can't get away with upgrading RHL so I 
can't say if the problems experienced have been fixed in later versions.
 

Best of luck,
Rod
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