similar to: Delays opening Excel/Word files off samba shares.

Hello, I am running Samba 2.2.2 with acl-0.7.16 on RedHat 6.2 (2.2.19). The PDC is a Windows 2000 Server and the Samba server is a domain member using Winbind. All the workstations are Windoze 2000 Pro with SP2. Everything seemingly works fine but every day or two I get a runaway SMBD process which hogs the CPU and becomes unkillable. The only resolution is to reboot the server completely.

The first time a Word or Excel file is opened, i.e., when either Word or Excel have not been actively running "recently" (like, say for several minutes or more), the time it takes to start the application and load the file seem inordinately long. Once the first evolution is complete, files open more-or-less instantly if I close the first document but leave either app running (but

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 19:40:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Rashkae <rashkae@tigershaunt.com> To: Marco De Vitis <starless@despammed.com> Subject: Re: [Samba] oplock problem on NTUSER.DAT Hi Marco Try to veto oplocks for that file. In the global section of your smb.conf, add the following veto oplock files = /NTUSER.DAT/ Let us know if that changes

The second instance of Quickbooks shows a "file may be corrupt" message. 56310 DENY_NONE 0x2019f RDWR EXCLUSIVE+BATCH /MY_REALLY_LONG_PATH/My File.QBW Thu Mar 3 19:42:20 2005 56310 DENY_NONE 0x2019f RDWR EXCLUSIVE+BATCH / MY_REALLY_LONG_PATH/My File.QBI Thu Mar 3 19:42:20 2005 It works on Windows - just copied the same file to a network mapped windows

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

I am trying to share an ACT 2000 database on a Samba shared network drive. Act does not currently support Samba shared networking but they do not see any reason why it should not work. Is anyone else out there using ACT in a multi-user environment over a Samba shared drive? If so what settings are you using for the "oplocks" and "level2 oplocks" for the share? Thanks, Paul.

Here's the problem we're encountering: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Having intermittent problems regarding users opening/accessing/saving/writing MS Excel files into samba shares. When a user accesses a file on a shared volume via samba, they can open an Excel file and end up with one of two conditions; either their system hangs after opening the file for a short pause

Our development team has been having the following issue for quite some time and I cannot isolate the problem. I saw a similar posting in the archives but there are no replies. We are running Samba 2.0.7 on a RedHat 6.2 server and we connect to the server from Windows 2000 desktops. We are editing files through a drive mapped to a share on the server. The problem is when we save the file in the

Hi Alexander, Not sure if this of any help, but we had a similar problem with runaway SMBDs and what seemed to be oplocks. We are running RH6.2 with 0.7.26 ACLs. After much messing around and hassling Jeremy, I eventually changed the kernel from 2.2.19 to 2.2.20 and recompiled everything from scratch. Since then we have not had one of these rogue processes. I think Jeremy was right when he

Hello Everyone! Perhaps some of you have some advice for dealing with this problem? I've done quite a bit of googling on this one, but I can't find anything useful. Ever since I started using Samba as PDC, I have had this problem: when users merely open MS-Excel files on samba shares, the file's Last-Modification date is incremented to the current time. I have seen similar

Hello all, I have always experienced VERY SLOW response times on opening an EXCEL sheet ever since I had started to use SAMBA WAY back. I have been hoping that a newer release would fix this one issue but it never seems to happen. Does anyone know what could be the problem? I can open the same Excel sheet on a Novell server and it opens instantly. I have no problems with WORD documents. They

Hi everyone, Just today one of our users informed me that a file she was working on in Microsoft Excel 97 got corrupted. She was working on the file directly on our server, which is running Samba 2.2.3a compiled using gcc-3.0.4 on Linux kernel 2.4.17-xfs and XFS-based filesystems. I checked the Samba logs for her machine and found the following in a search for the filename of the Excel file she

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

Hi, Thought I posted this already two weeks ago. Haven't seen any reactions yet, so I post it again We got the following problem here: Every now and then, users are unable to save Word or Excel documents on our Samba server. We already tried a couple of things: disabling oplocks, increasing oplock break wait time, putting the documents on a new share, ... but to no success so far. The

I'm having the same kind of problem too. Links to other excel workbooks are really breaking badly. One of them so bad that if I highlight the file through a windows explorer view; it kills the window immediately. I'm using RH 7.2 and Samba 2.2.4 -1 Please let me know if someone has some suggestions .... So far I've tried: veto oplock files = /*.mdb/*.MDB/*.ldb/*.LDB/*.xls/*.XLS

Hi, I am new to this list, so please excuse any redundancy in my question. I have 60 Windows XP users who are tied into three Mac OSX File - Xserve file servers. There is one big problem - ... we are having issues with Excel files, that on occasion, are not being recognized, taking literally minutes to load and other quirky abnormalities. Excel on the XP desktop machines will refuse to save

Hello, I am running samba 2.2.7a on Red Hat 9. The clients are running Win2k with SP3 and Office XP with SP2. The Samba server authenticates with a WinNT 4 domain controller. When the users open a Word or Excel document there is a 30sec delay before the file opens. From info gleaned from searches on this subject I have tried turning oplocks off altogether, which resulted in Word and Excel

Hello, I have a samba server running at a customer site and they have the follwing problem: Employees of that company have for extended periods sometimes word documents opened for editing, but it happens regularly that for an half hour or more no activity takes place because they are working on something else (it's a flower seed growing company , with pc's in the glasshouses and they have

We're using CentOS samba for about 20 workstations, mostly XP, some 2000 and two win98. Samba shares a data directory with Word, Excel and Access documents/db's. Also Exact for Dos is running from this share (executable and data). The users experience a long delay every morning opening the first Word document (Word 97, Word 2000). This could take 10 minutes or so. If they close

Hi there everyone! I'm using Samba 2.0.5a-19990721 on a RedHat 6.0 machine with Linux kernel 2.2.12. My system generally works fine, however recently I've had some complaints about some files being corrupted. The latest and best-handled to enable a debugging happened at around the same time. Both clients were using Windows95 OSR2 machines with Excel 97 SP-2. Two users reported the problem