From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 16 6:28:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from andrewpea.com (bpea-60.flexabit.net [64.198.231.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7279737B4D7 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 06:28:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from bruce.andrewpea.com (bruce.andrewpea.com [192.168.10.11]) by andrewpea.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id eAGEkx707510 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 08:46:59 -0600 (CST) From: Bruce Pea Reply-To: pea@andrewpea.com Organization: Andrew Pea & Co., Inc. To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Running DOS program Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 08:11:26 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00111608280500.00292@bruce.andrewpea.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG We have a multiuser DOS database application presently running on a Novell v3.12 server that we would like to move to a FreeBSD/ufs server running Samba. The company that makes the software said they have never tested the application on any form of *NIX and that if we made the move we would be on our own as far as hardware support went. Our question is does anyone know why moving this application wouldn't work on a FreeBSD/Samba box? Is there anything special we should be aware of in terms of setting user/group permissions, sticky bits, etc.? The reason for the move is we are running Novell servers, WindowsNT servers and FreeBSD servers and its a pain to manage all of the assorted platforms. We want to move everything to *nix boxes and standardize on FreeBSD. So far everything we have moved to FreeBSD (various DOS, windows and foxpro apps) have worked great. However this last application is the company's financial/property management program that the company pretty much runs on and management needs to be reassured everything will work alright. Thanks - Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message