Sharing Database - Windows/XP

[Phillip Richcreek]

John,

> So what?
>
> You do realize that Geert said NTFS (which is the native, not shared, file system used by Microsoft's NT kernel), not NFS, don't you?
>

Actually it was I, not Geert, who mentioned NTFS. My XP system is using NTFS.

Regards,

Phil(R)

> Message: 10
> Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 08:46:38 -0700
> From: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
> Subject: Re: Sharing Database - Windows/XP
> To: Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com>
> Cc: gnucash <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Message-ID: <53F042E2-9EE6-4287-A173-651A5CFB2E12 at ceridwen.us>
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> On Apr 24, 2010, at 8:39 AM, Robert Heller wrote:
>
>> At Sat, 24 Apr 2010 07:15:23 -0700 John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Apr 24, 2010, at 5:32 AM, Robert Heller wrote:
>>>
>>>> At Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:25:49 -0400 Phillip Richcreek <pwrichcreek at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Geert,
>>>>>
>>>>> I had just summarized and re-stated my question before seeing your
>>>>> reply; so I did not (could not!) incorporate your reply in my
>>>>> restatement. I think it does, however, go to the heart of the issue.
>>>>> I'm no Windows expert, but I believe there are locking mechanisms
>>>>> available for the ntfs file system that (I believe) Windows/XP uses in
>>>>> the limited network environment that I am running.
>>>>
>>>> 'NFS' (as mentioned below) is a *UNIX* network file system (sharing
>>>> files across multiple *unix* computers on a network).
>>>
>>> NFS is a platform-independent TCP/IP remote mount protocol. It has
>>> been implemented on just about every operating system for which TCP/IP
>>> has, including Microsoft Windows. True, it's commonly provided with
>>> unix-like systems including Linux and the BSD, but I have used it on
>>> Microsoft Windows (both DOS-based and NT), VAX VMS, TOPS-20,  VM/CMS,
>>> OS/400, and PrimeOS.
>>
>> Yes, this is all true.  NFS is *native* to most UNIX and UNIX-variants
>> (eg is a basic part of all Linux kernels and the user-mode utilites
>> related to NFS are a pretty standard part of any Linux distro and are
>> commonly installed by default).
>>
>> It is unlikely that a network of only Microsoft Windows machines would
>> be using NFS.  NFS is not normally a part of the Microsoft Windows
>> installation.
>
> So what?
>
> You do realize that Geert said NTFS (which is the native, not shared, file system used by Microsoft's NT kernel), not NFS,
> don't you?
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>