Re: Problem with GPS - Great Plains Accounting

Subject: Re: Problem with GPS - Great Plains Accounting
From: Fred Jensen (fmj@nortext.com)
Date: Thu Aug 24 2000 - 09:52:47 EDT

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For what it's worth, I seem to have solved the problem by doing a clean
install with the latest of asun's versions - 'pre-asun2.1.4-39_test.tar'

-- 
Fred
Fred Jensen wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm not completely sure my problem is netatalk-related, it could be an
> issue with the Great Plains Software (GPS) but I'm checking here to see
> if anyone has run into it before, or even if anyone else is successfully
> running GPS on netatalk.
> 
> Our accounting department uses Great Plains Accounting, v7.25 on
> Macintosh. The client/server version of GPS uses a client-side
> application, with the data files residing on the server. There is no
> server-side application. In the past, I've successfully upgraded their
> server (from Mac to Mac) merely by copying all the data files to the new
> server, with no problems.
> 
> I recently tried to move them to a Windows box running RedHat 6.1 with
> netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.3-8.i386.rpm installed. All the files were copied
> from the old server to the new one through the Appletalk share.
> Everything works fine (much faster!) except for 'master posts' to the
> 'AR' module. The posting fails with a GPS error message saying 'Access
> denied - you must post in a multi-user environment'. In every other way
> GPS is running multi-user, and the posts work fine in the other modules.
> 
> I've tried changing the Appleshare settings to every combination I can
> think of, from the default settings to specific user and group settings
> for Applevolumes.default and afpd.conf. I've changed all the privileges
> to 775. I've checked every data file for possible corruption and redone
> the file transfer several times - I can't find anything that may be
> causing this.
> 
> Is anyone out there running Great Plains Accounting successfully? If so,
> can you give me any hints?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Fred

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