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From: John Charlton <j.d.charlton@ieee.org>
To: "Gábor Dukai" <dukai@EUnet.yu>, linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Running Clipper programs in network environment
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 18:14:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200310041814.34221.j.d.charlton@ieee.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F7E9888.6000805@EUnet.yu>

On Saturday 04 October 2003 05:53, Gábor Dukai wrote:
> Hello!
> I have a small office network (4-6 clients), where we have to use a
> Clipper-based program for bookeeping. First, we used an old NetWare as a
> server, then I replaced it with linux+Samba. It worked for a month but
> we had some corruption in the databases. Browsing the Net for a new
> solution I have found an interesting one which was discussed on this
> list a year ago or so. Now the server runs multiple instances of dosemu
> and the clients access them through X. Now we have no corruption but it
> gets really slow around 4 clients connected (with 1-2 clients dosemu
> runs well). Is it possible to speed it up somehow (new hardware?) or I
> have found a theorically wrong solution again?
>
>
> Thank you for your help,
> Gábor Dukai

The corruption of the databases you had with linux/samba is probably due to 
file sharing/locking problems.  We have tested file locking/sharing with 
dosemu 1.1.5.0 and freedos kernel.sys 2032 (no share.exe needed for dosemu) 
using nfs mounted network drives with linux/dosemu clients.  File 
sharing/locking works well with this configuration  We are not using clipper, 
but if clipper supports multiuser file locking/sharing it should work.  We 
have not tested locking with samba mounted network drives.

--John

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-04 22:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-04  9:53 Running Clipper programs in network environment Gábor Dukai
2003-10-04 22:14 ` John Charlton [this message]
2003-10-04 23:54 ` Justin Zygmont

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