[TriLUG] Samba vs Window share issue

Chris Bullock cgbullock at yahoo.com
Thu Apr 5 16:31:00 EDT 2007


We have installed this new payroll software (Paychex) for our Accounting
Dept.   All that was needed was a Windows share for the application.  
Created the samba share with correct permissions, went to the CD , the CD
asked where to install the file I said P drive = \\$server\%share,
installed the software, then I mapped the P drive on other machine and
installed the software running the workstation_setup.exe.  Anyway long
story short the application does run, the problem is when the application
need to edit files, I wasn't there I was just told that there were errors.
 Any way, we called the company, they said oh yea, it *has* to be on a
Windows share, "It will not work with Linux/Samba shared"  But the kicker
is they say it writes to the C:\Temp folder when trying to edit these
files on the share.  If I have a share, and that is the only thing my
users have access to how can they write to the C:\temp folder of the
server?  Or is this guy feeding me a bunch or horse poop.  Anyway, I
created a Windows share scp'ed the files over, gave my acct dept access,
and the program worked as expected.

Any thoughts as to why it would not work on the samba share?
Regards,
chris


 
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