Wayne D's Blog

I was sitting around with a couple of people and we got to chatting about classic Canadian Cartoons from the NFB. We ended up watching not so good versions off Youtube on my tablet. A bit of research on the National Film Board of Canada webiste turned up these beautiful versions.

The Cat Came Back made by Cordell Baker in 1988.

This hilarious Oscar®-nominated animation is based on the century-old folk song of the same name. Old Mr. Johnson makes increasingly manic attempts to rid himself of a little yellow cat that just won't stay away... Also won the 1989 Genie Award for best animated short film. (text shamelessly taken from the http://nfb.ca page http://www.nfb.ca/film/the-cat-came-back )

The Log Drivers Waltz made by John Weldon in 1979

This lighthearted, animated short is based on the song "The Log Driver's Waltz" by Wade Hemsworth. Easily one of the most often-requested films in the NFB collection, Kate and Anna McGarrigle sing along to the tale of a young girl who loves to dance and chooses to marry a log driver over his more well-to-do competitor. Driving logs down the river has made the young man the best dancing partner to be found. (from http://www.nfb.ca/film/log_drivers_waltz/ )

I haven't blogged for a while and I suspect you are wondering why I am blogging about women's lingerie and bras. A friend of mine recently open a lingerie and bra store in Richmond Hill and I thought I should throw a little blog love her way to help along. She calls her store Coup de Foudre and specializes in top of the line luxury lingerie and bras. Her store is located at 1285 Elgin Mills Road East in Richmond Hill which is right across the street from Richmond Green and about 2 minutes from the 404 which makes it convenient for lingerie shoppers in York Region. If you know if anyone looking for top quality ladies lingerie and bras why not give Coup de Foudre a try. If you drop by tell them Wayne sent you and maybe my friend will give me a good price on a pair of fancy mens underwear.

Lying on my deck enjoying the great Thanksgiving weather and listening to the Sunday Edition. http://www.cbc.ca/thesundayedition/ http://www.cbc.ca/video/news/audioplayer.html?clipid=2149705842 http://www.cbc.ca/video/news/audioplayer.html?clipid=15329089

Continuing in the tradition of the 2010 Men's Word Cup CBC is offering Canadian soccer fans live streaming of the FIFA 2011 Women's World Cup games at http://www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/fifawomensworldcup2011/video/live/ and best of all it works on Linux too.

Another piece of good news for Linux users is that the video viewer CBC uses for their regular shows which didn't work on Linux last year now also works. Ok, enough of that time to go watch some Women's World Cup soccer, or should I call it football? I'm so confused.

The problem? A Quickbooks install that was running just fine with the company file hosted on a Linux server until a Quickbooks client software update results in the dreaded H202 error. Evidently other Quickbooks linux server users also ran into the same problem as can be seen from these posts on the quickbooks user support forums http://community.intuit.com/posts/qb-2011-h202-error-with-redhat-linux-database-server-manager and http://community.intuit.com/posts/i-cant-switch-to-multiuser-mode.

The solution? So simple yet so hard, to find. Digging through the wireshark capture of the connection attempt shows at attempt to connect to the server on 55333 and then UDP broadcasts and attempt to connect to UDB ports on the server which fail with port unreachable.

An article on the sybase site gives a clue, the UDP packets are an attempt to discover the database server because connecting to the server failed.

Digging into the Wireshark packets I could see that the client was trying to connect to the server using the servers netbios name not it's hostname. When the SQLAnywhere server used by Quickbooks starts it's name is set to the hostname. It seemed that the easiest solution would be to set the SQLAnywhere database name to match the server's Netbios name unfortunately the qbdbfilemon doesn't let you specify the database name and uses the hostname of the server so it failed to find the find the database server. Since qbdbfilemon couldn't find the database server and report back the port number the client needed to use to make it's connection to the server the client connection still failed. The server had a Netbios name that didn't match it's hostname for historical reasons, changing it might have caused too many other side effects so I moved the database to another server where the Netbios name already matched the server name with is the default configuration with a Samba server. The other thing I had to do is change the servers hostname so that it didn't include our internal domain name, so instead of being server1.internal.company.com it reported it's hostname as simply server1.

That's what it took to banish the H202 error.