samba - Aug 2015 - SOLVED Powerpoint 2007 will not advance slides when saved on a Samba share

The spaces in the netbios name were the cause.
 
Powerpoint 2007 worked as expected when the spaces were removed on a test setup.
 
It also worked when a netbios alias was added to smb.conf.
 
If I get the time, I will have to investigate why every other piece of software
in the building, including Powerpoint 2003, didn't seem to mind spaces in
the
netbios name but Powerpoint 2007 did but only when advancing slides!
 
Regards
 
Kevin Hall

On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 11:04:02AM +0100, kevin.hall at hallictservices.co.uk
wrote:
> The spaces in the netbios name were the cause.
>  
> Powerpoint 2007 worked as expected when the spaces were removed on a test
setup.
>  
> It also worked when a netbios alias was added to smb.conf.
>  
> If I get the time, I will have to investigate why every other piece of
software
> in the building, including Powerpoint 2003, didn't seem to mind spaces
in the
> netbios name but Powerpoint 2007 did but only when advancing slides!
Thanks for tracking that down and letting us know Kevin. That is amazingly weird
:-).