----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kyle Faber" <kyle@emr.net>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 4:28 PM
Subject: Peachtree and Linux


> Hey everyone,
>
> I was having a conversation with someone at the AZ Tech Expo who mentioned
> using Peachtree while on a network with another Linux box.  Apparantly,
the
> consensus was that Peachtree detects the linux box and stops functioning.
>
> Hopefully, someone out there can confirm or deny this information, and if
you
> can confirm it, do you have a work around?
>
> One of my customers just hit the "recommended" upgrade from Peachtree and
all
> network functionality ceased.  It is installed on a Windows 2k Pro
machine,
> and there is a ClarkConnect Linux Firewall protecting the world from the
XP
> workstations (or vice versa if you prefer ;)  )

We are running a Linux+Samba file server which hosts the Peachtree 8.0 data
files.  The client machines are WinXP.  Everything works great here.

-- 
Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT
Cameron Technical Services, Inc.
http://www.camerontech.com
(512) 454-3200