Empressa on Linux, files on WinXP... Possible?

I've got a desktop running WinXP, and a laptop running Suse Linux.

I've got Empressa running on the linux box, and I've mounted the WinXP
drive using Samba as Read/Write. Set Apache/Empressa to point to the
mounted XP drive as web/data dirs. So far, so good.

Can get simple html/miva pages to load, but when I try to run Merchant
sites, they timeout when trying to create the lockfile for baskets.

Anybody pulled off something like this?
Any ideas what I may have done wrong, or is it just plain impossible?

I can't tell if it's a permission problem, or if it's a problem with
Linux Empressa trying to write to an NTFS file system.

--
Bill Guindon (aka aGorilla)

Empressa on Linux, files on WinXP... Possible?



Are you able to create files from linux onto your
NT box via the mount? In the base mivadata
directory.

David

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Guindon [mailto:[email protected]]=20
> Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 9:07 PM
> To: Miva Users
> Subject: [meu] Empressa on Linux, files on WinXP... Possible?
>=20
> I've got a desktop running WinXP, and a laptop running Suse Linux.
>=20
> I've got Empressa running on the linux box, and I've mounted the WinXP
> drive using Samba as Read/Write. Set Apache/Empressa to point to the
> mounted XP drive as web/data dirs. So far, so good.
>=20
> Can get simple html/miva pages to load, but when I try to run Merchant
> sites, they timeout when trying to create the lockfile for baskets.
>=20
> Anybody pulled off something like this?
> Any ideas what I may have done wrong, or is it just plain impossible?
>=20
> I can't tell if it's a permission problem, or if it's a problem with
> Linux Empressa trying to write to an NTFS file system.
>=20
> --=20
> Bill Guindon (aka aGorilla)
>=20

Empressa on Linux, files on WinXP... Possible?



On Apr 4, 2005 9:09 PM, David Hubbard <[email protected]> wrote:
> Are you able to create files from linux onto your
> NT box via the mount? In the base mivadata
> directory.

The "obvious" question eluded me... yes, I can. Just made test.txt
using Kate, so sounds like it may be an empressa problem.

> David
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bill Guindon [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 9:07 PM
> > To: Miva Users
> > Subject: [meu] Empressa on Linux, files on WinXP... Possible?
> >
> > I've got a desktop running WinXP, and a laptop running Suse Linux.
> >
> > I've got Empressa running on the linux box, and I've mounted the WinXP
> > drive using Samba as Read/Write. Set Apache/Empressa to point to the
> > mounted XP drive as web/data dirs. So far, so good.
> >
> > Can get simple html/miva pages to load, but when I try to run Merchant
> > sites, they timeout when trying to create the lockfile for baskets.
> >
> > Anybody pulled off something like this?
> > Any ideas what I may have done wrong, or is it just plain impossible?
> >
> > I can't tell if it's a permission problem, or if it's a problem with
> > Linux Empressa trying to write to an NTFS file system.
> >
> > --
> > Bill Guindon (aka aGorilla)
> >

Empressa on Linux, files on WinXP... Possible?



The issue is most likely that XP/Samba is not returning an answer fast
enough. Win is a pain in the ass when it comes to file locks. When it
creates a file it does not return a handle instantaneously like other
OS's. Win just 'assumes' it is done and the app is supposed to proceed.

There are ways to get around it when the data file is accessed locally --
but not through Samba in the same fashion.

Look closely to ways to make Samba answer affirmative to most any file
creation request. There might me a delay factor you can decrease or nullify
which Empresa will be fooled to interpret as a 'success' to a file creation
request.

And/or look at the old config values for Empresa where you can define the
'working' tmp directory, and define it locally.

Jonathan
Driftwood Network Services

At 08:06 PM 4/4/2005, Bill Guindon wrote:
>I've got a desktop running WinXP, and a laptop running Suse Linux.
>
>I've got Empressa running on the linux box, and I've mounted the WinXP
>drive using Samba as Read/Write. Set Apache/Empressa to point to the
>mounted XP drive as web/data dirs. So far, so good.
>
>Can get simple html/miva pages to load, but when I try to run Merchant
>sites, they timeout when trying to create the lockfile for baskets.
>
>Anybody pulled off something like this?
>Any ideas what I may have done wrong, or is it just plain impossible?
>
>I can't tell if it's a permission problem, or if it's a problem with
>Linux Empressa trying to write to an NTFS file system.
>
>--
>Bill Guindon (aka aGorilla)
>

Empressa on Linux, files on WinXP... Possible?



On Apr 5, 2005 1:58 PM, Jonathan - Driftwood <[email protected]> wrote:
> The issue is most likely that XP/Samba is not returning an answer fast
> enough. Win is a pain in the ass when it comes to file locks. When it
> creates a file it does not return a handle instantaneously like other
> OS's. Win just 'assumes' it is done and the app is supposed to proceed.
>
> There are ways to get around it when the data file is accessed locally --
> but not through Samba in the same fashion.

Well, I may end up putting all the files on linux, but I'd rather avoid it.

> Look closely to ways to make Samba answer affirmative to most any file
> creation request. There might me a delay factor you can decrease or nullify
> which Empresa will be fooled to interpret as a 'success' to a file creation
> request.

Will do. I've got a lot of rtfm'ing left to do on Samba, hopefully
find something there.

> And/or look at the old config values for Empresa where you can define the
> 'working' tmp directory, and define it locally.

Didn't know about that one, but doesn't seem to work. From the docs
it's only used for temp files from MvPACK. Worth a shot tho', tried a
couple others while in there with no luck (Lock_Hostname and
Delay_File).

> Jonathan
> Driftwood Network Services

Thanks much.

--
Bill Guindon (aka aGorilla)