[AccessD] Linux Server

Hi Rocky

But I know for sure it can. Don't know why Arthur puts a no to this. 

All popular Linux distros are able to run Samba - or even do so by default - which effectively emulates an SMB file server as does a Windows Server (and good old IBM Lan Manager and OS/2). Also, 99% of all the NAS units run Linux, Debian or some other Unix style OS and Samba. Even a Mac server will if you ask it to do so. The only issue may be some tweaking of the file locking settings of Samba but you can leave that for the Linux geeks to solve.

Wine, including Crossroads, is for _running_ Windows apps on a Linux machine. However, exactly Access is known to cause problems with this combo.
But that has nothing to do with sharing a database file on a file server.

/gustav

>>> carbonnb at gmail.com 02-01-2009 19:34 >>>
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software
<rockysmolin at bchacc.com> wrote:
> Don't know.  Looks right from their description.  I'll forward to the client
> and see what happens.

I don't know for sure if an Access BE can sit on a Linux Server, but I
don't see any problems with it. I have had BEs sit on a Novell Server
before with no problems.

If the IT folks set it up correctly as a file and print server with
Samba, then AFAICT it shouldn't be a problem. They won't need WINE
because Access is being run on the local desktop not the server.

-- 
Bryan Carbonnell - carbonnb at gmail.com