Leo Crombach <lcrombach@tropel.com> wrote:> One of the Samba servers on our network is used as a MS Access database /
> file server. We are in the process of migrating PC users from Windows 9X
> to Windows NT. One of the problems that has surfaced is using the Access
> database. The Windows 95 boxes can run the database fine. The Windows NT
> boxes for some reason run the database much, much slower. I believe it is
> due to the differences in the TCP/IP stack between 95 and NT. The question
> is, what tuning can I do to the Samba server to boost performance for the
> NT boxes.
Any chance of migrating the configuration to use
access as an "access to backend database" client, rather
than a database that uses a remote filesystem?
The default configuration of Access isn't intended
to scale... it's to sell back-office dbms servers (;-))
--dave
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