samba - Mar 2005 - Problems with MS Office (Excel/Word) & Samba 3.0.11, (moved to testing 3.0.12-RC1) attn Jerry

We are running with a little over 100GB of office data, and about 200GB misc
other data shared to approximately 50 users using samba across two servers
acting as PDC and BDC to Windows 2000 & XP Pro clients. Also using roaming
profiles and ldap backend inclusive of nss_ldap and pam_ldap for the unix
side - works well except for the more recent and horribly crippling MS
Office bug.

Tried disabling/veto'ing oplocks, but to no avail, so we've opted to try
3.0.12-rc1 on one of the two servers; all is well at this point thus far
(been running about 10mins), figured I'd drop the list a line; Just a note -
we've been having huge problems with MS Excel and Word running on samba
3.0.11, moved over to 3.0.12-rc1, (even though this is a production
environment).

... Will advise and let you know if the problems persist, or if we find any
new ones.



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Nathan Vidican
nvidican@wmptl.com
Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd.
http://www.wmplt.com/

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Nathan Vidican wrote:

| We are running with a little over 100GB of office data,
| and about 200GB misc other data shared to approximately 50
| users using samba across two servers acting as PDC and BDC
| to Windows 2000 & XP Pro clients. Also using roaming profiles
| and ldap backend inclusive of nss_ldap and pam_ldap for the unix
| side - works well except for the more recent and horribly
| crippling MS Office bug.
|
| Tried disabling/veto'ing oplocks, but to no avail, so we've
| opted to try 3.0.12-rc1 on one of the two servers; all is
| well at this point thus far (been running about 10mins),
| figured I'd drop the list a line; Just a note - we've been
| having huge problems with MS Excel and Word running on samba
| 3.0.11, moved over to 3.0.12-rc1, (even though this is
| a production environment).
|
| ... Will advise and let you know if the problems persist, or
| if we find any new ones.

Thanks for the feedback, Nathan.




cheers, jerry
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On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 09:36:31AM -0500, Nathan Vidican
wrote:
> We are running with a little over 100GB of office data, and about 200GB
misc
> other data shared to approximately 50 users using samba across two servers
> acting as PDC and BDC to Windows 2000 & XP Pro clients. Also using
roaming
> profiles and ldap backend inclusive of nss_ldap and pam_ldap for the unix
> side - works well except for the more recent and horribly crippling MS
> Office bug.
> 
> Tried disabling/veto'ing oplocks, but to no avail, so we've opted
to try
> 3.0.12-rc1 on one of the two servers; all is well at this point thus far
> (been running about 10mins), figured I'd drop the list a line; Just a
note -
> we've been having huge problems with MS Excel and Word running on samba
> 3.0.11, moved over to 3.0.12-rc1, (even though this is a production
> environment).
Please be exact on the version of MS-Office you're running with. I can't
reproduce the problems with a MS-Office 2003 - if you're running an earlier
version I'll need to go back a rev or so.

Jeremy.