[Techtalk] Access and Samba

[Perkins, Nathan]

I set up a samba fileserver with access and acls controlled through an nt
box, and never had any problems related to access databases (had at least
two running on it), except for forgetting to set the default access rights.
Just remember that it creates a new file (*.ldb) whenever anyone opens a
access database, and set default permissions accordingly.  Not sure if this
helps or not, but good luck.

Nathan Perkins
Network Analyst

-----Original Message-----
From: Carla Schroder [mailto:carla at bratgrrl.com]
Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2002 8:25 AM
To: techtalk at linuxchix.org
Subject: [Techtalk] Access and Samba


Any brave souls out there try sharing an Access database via Samba? I have a

client who has a large number of custom order forms (Visual basic of course)

in Access. He is retiring his NT4 server, and replacing it with Linux. The 
Linux box will be a domain controller, file server, and email server with 
Postfix. (Firewall is a separate Snapgear box)

Someday down the road he may migrate to PostgreSQL or something similar, but

for now it has to be Access.

As there will be no Windows server, he wants to put the Access .mdb on the 
Linux box, for the users on the Windows clients. Databases are tricky
beasts, 
will it work? I'm going to try it out on my test system, if anyone has real 
experiences to share that would be very nice.


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