[TriLUG] Samba vs Window share issue

[Warren Myers]

PayChex was founded by Tom Golisano... and I've never known any of their
reps to be all that intelligent.

WMM

On 4/5/07, Chris Bullock <cgbullock at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> 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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