Filepro and Samba

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Jay R. Ashworth (Wed, 8 Nov 2006 12:51:46 -0500):
[...]
> > Simply connect to the SAMBA share from Windows, and point filePro to
> > that drive.  (Or, with the additional UNC capabilities of 5.6, simply
> > point filePro to the UNC path directly.)
>
> If you're brave.  :-)

???

> > Note, however, that you can't share the filePro data between Windows
> > and Linux versions of filePro.  (Differences in filenames, such as
> > "prc.automatic" versus "auto.prc", as well as checksums.)  Yes, the
> > key/data/indexes can be shared, but not map/screen/output/etc.
>
> Correct.  Although you *can* have your Windows formats on the Samba
> server as well, they just can't be *the same format files* as the ones
> that the Linux filepro install is using.  You do that with, what,
> PFDSK, Ken?

You would point PFDATA to the platform-specific map/screen/output/etc
formats, and point PFDSK to the shared key/data/index files.

Of course, keeping updates to the non-shared parts in sync would be
problematic.

> And yes, using Samba to serve Windows native filepro formats and data
> works fine...

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