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Has anyone seen file corruption with Excel 97 SR1, on Samba? Scotty (scott@dork.com) is running 2.0.7 on SCO 5.0.4 on a Compaq Proliant 800, compiled on SCO 5.0.5 box. He writes, on comp.protocol.smb: > Oh dear. If this is the case does that mean my clients can't use Excel > 97 SR1 on Samba or is there a workaround? At the moment some of my > clients users are saving files to their C

...opies of log files, ps listings, and much much more testing information if anyone is interested. I'm posting this in case it relates to the other problems people have been seeing before they disabled oplocks. -- Alastair Broom Valley Technology, Edinburgh, Bonnie Scotland abroom@valleyt.co.uk

Hello! I've been seeing some weird problems with transfering large files from a Samba (2.0.4a[1]) server to Windows clients. Sometimes (but not always) the Windows client will stop copying the file after a few megs and claim that the share is no longer available (it is, of course). This used to happen *a lot* with the default read/write buffer of 8k. The buffer is now 250 K, which has almost

Hi, I am trying to create two directories using the preexec command but I must be missing something very simple. I just can?t figure out the syntax. How would I continue this so that I could create dir2? preexec = if [ ! -e /home/%U/dir1] then /bin/mkdir /home/%U/dir1; fi Regards Robert ----------------------------------------------------------

Hello all, I have a very annoying situation (at least at my end). I set up Samba 2.0.5 on a Digital UNIX 4.0F system sitting on a Compaq DS20 server with great success.... until recently. I set up three directory file shares with no problems, when I tried to set up a forth, quite a while after setting up the inital three, I tried to access it from a NT box, I got the message server not found,

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