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storing quicken file on linux server running samba

I have 3 or 4 PCs at home that I use depending on the situaiton - laptop for lounging on the sofa, desktop in the office, laptop 2 in the bedroom, and work computers come and go. I have long envisioned having a file server at home to house all my data files. One important aspect of the transition to a server setup is to continue my use of Quicken - one qdf file holding all transactions since 1998 - 20 MB and growing. I want to store this file on the linux box (debian running samba) - however, I get a can not open file error when I try to open the file via the mapped drive pointing to the samba server. I'm running Quicken

2005 Deluxe.

Has anyone had any success storing the QDF file on a linux box running samba?

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wedge
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I use a Windows box for a central server, using a mapped drive on any computers running Quicken and it works fine. Can't think of any reason why a Linux/Samba box wouldn't work other than permissions issues and having all the needed files. Be sure you put all the Quicken data files on your server. (YourFile.QDF, YourFile.QEL, YourFile.QPH, etc.)

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klunk

My Quicken files are on an encrypted file system on a linux box. I don't have a WinXX machine and run Quicken over CodeWeavers's CrossOver (wine) where wine will get to the linux file system or from a VMware virtual machine, over samba.

-- HASM

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HASM

This is almost exactly what I do at home. I have two desktops and a couple of laptops scattered about the house and a server (currently running Fedora Core 3) that provides all the machines the Quicken data files via samba. Each Windows machine has Quicken 2006 installed. In my setup I have sharing of not only Quicken data, but also Outlook .pst files, recipe files and some shared Excel spreadsheets that I want to be accessible from anywhere.

From my smb.conf file:

[windata] comment = Shared Data Files path = /mnt/win read only = No create mask = 0666 directory mask = 0777

These files all live on a separate FAT32 drive that I mount at /mnt/win on the server. All machines map "windata" as drive S:. To access the Quicken files all machines open the S:\QFiles\qdata.qdf file. In my case all machines log in using the same username, but it should be possible for each machine to log in as a different user.

Works great with the only limitation being that only one machine can access the data file at any given time.

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Miguel

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