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I have a new Dell server running Red Hat 8.0 Linux. I just downloaded and installed Samba 2.2.7 from the Red Hat Web site. I am having trouble with Microsoft Access 2000 data base locking. The program runs in a runtime version (.mde)on each client. Only the database(.mdb), the permissions file(.mdw) and the lock file (.ldb) are resident on the server running Samba. Each computer can individually

I'm trying to use Access 2002 on a Samba server.....question, are there special Samba parameters that need to be set so that 3-5 users can enter data? All users have proper access (no pun intended) to the SAMBA server..... thanks jr

I have alredy changed oplocks values and I have upgraded last version of samba for HP-UX 11 :( ver. 2.2.5 ). My problem has not been solved yet. I have same old PC with WIN 95 and first version of WIN98 that casually when I open OUTLOOK stop with message :outlook.pst is corrupted. This PC open also EXCEL,WORD,ACCESS ecc. files that don't give some problems.Only outlook.pst !!!! I think that

I'm in process of configuring a server here at work with 8.1 an plan to use samba on it also. I'm going to use it mainly at a printer server to relieve some stress on my main file/server with suse 8.0 an samba. I'm setup on that old server as a workgroup with samba, do not want to mess with domain at this point. not gotten it to work in past an not had time to play with it much of

I have added the line time server = Yes to my smb.conf file. All my win2k machines can do a net time \\servername /set an answer yes an the time is set to what is on samba server. Now the win9x machines will not do it. gives me an error # 2103, the server you specified can not be found. Is this a problem with win9x machines or do i need to do something else to get the time to be set from the

i'm trying to update samba to 2.2.3a on a mandrake 8.1 system an when i tried to install the rpm it said i needed libreadline.so.4. anyone know where I can locate this to put on my system. thanks. anyone also gotten sambe to work on mandrake with download iso an making the cds then installing. it seems to put smb.conf an other files into the /etc/samba dir but smbd -d want start jup

This mail is probably spam. The original message has been attached along with this report, so you can recognize or block similar unwanted mail in future. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. Content preview: Hi, I'm running samba as a file store in our windows 2000 domain and are having a few problems with MS Access, we have a couple of users accessing the same mdb file,

We are running samba on a number of HP systems running HP/UX 11.00. We moved from samba version 2.0.7. to samba version 2.2.3a. We have about 200-400 smbd's running on one host. Samba version 2.2.3a was running without any problems for about two weeks. But now on two different servers indepent of each other, the file table was full. We found out that ONE smbd used about 5000 !!

I have this problem. Samba server version 2.2.3a Server Hp 9000 - HP-UX 11.11. Clients W98. Server is used as file-server (config file smb.conf with no particulry changes-I have keeped originally hp-configuration) . I have created personal directory-one for PC-client where I have trasferred file Outlook.pst (OUTLOOK 2000). Casauly file Outlook.pst crashed and I must reload it with Win-prog.

I would like to pose the following problem to this mailing list to see if any of you have any suggestions you may offer. I am running samba on a RedHat 7.2 Athalon box with software RAID 0 dual IDE disks on an ext3 filesystem. I have several users in a large community of users that are always hitting the samba server. The machine has been consistently reliable with one exception. There is

Hi, we still have some trouble running a MS Access-database on Samba. We now tried it with v.2.2.6 on RH 7.3 but still we either get no acces on the database simultanously or we run in problems with updating the database. The problem is that we make some changes on one of the clients but the changes are not visible to the other clients until they shut down the database and reopen it. We

I am wondering if there is a way I can setup permission on directories in the directory that I have setup for samba shares so that no one can move or delete them. The problem I am having of late is that someone from within windows will move the directories around . I think they do it not knowing they are doing it. Its happened several times of late now. I have always found the missing

I had to move my RedHat 5 box acting as a PDC to a new IP address. It is running samba 3.5.10. After the move, none of my windows or linux samba clients worked anymore. I tried rejoining some to the domain, but would get error Unable to find a suitable server Join to domain 'MRIRESEARCH' is not valid The old PDC IP address is 132.183.202.95 and nothing is at that IP anymore (for 4

Dear all, as you already know, it is possible to send short winpopup messages to Win boxes using the command smbclient -M host. If a Win user wants to reply, it should be possible to use the Windows' WinPopUp GUI to reply, but the message gets lost somewhere. For example: smbclient -M winbox Added interface ip=192.1.1.125 bcast=192.1.1.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 Connected. Type your message,

I would like to use Linux as a file and print server for a number of Windows workstations. One use of this is server will be to provide a central repository for an accounting package. I have spoken to the software supplier for the accounting software and whilst they do not know of any issues with this configuration, they have advised they are unsure how Samba manages file/record

My problem is not the the restore or re-creataion of outlook.pst but is to understand why outlook.pst is corrupted when I open OUTLOOK-2000 or 98 ecc. I have this problem only when I use samba (2.2.5) on HP-UX 11. In other company I have server linux (RH 7.3) with samba and 20 PC that have all your files and mail-files (outlook ecc.) saved in share-directory in linux-server but in this

I need to implement split horizon DNS, as I have just one external IP address (dynamic.lindenberg.one in external DNS) but multiple internal ones. External requests are distributed by port or using sniproxy (in particular 443), and all externally visible names are in a distinct zone then my domain, but with an additional indirection: names like backup.lindenberg.one resolve to CNAME

Hi all! I am using Debian Sarge with Samba version 3.0.14a-Debian and experience a locking problem: the program is a linux port of a Clipper program compiled with xHarbour (www.xharbour.org). It uses byte-range-locking to lock a record of a dbf database. If I mount the server directory over an smbmount and start 2 clients on the server accessing the server directory over the smbmount, the

Hi, I have these BMIMS .dbf/.cdx/.fpt files. I have no longer BMIMS. I would like to transfers theses files to another visible format. I tried opening them with Monarch 4.0, but it does not give me a proper format. what do i do? thankx

Greetings! My little app collects data from the user, persists it in about a dozen tables during the session, writes out / saves an XML file that''s downloaded to the user''s PC when they''re done, then clears the db of all data entered, and deletes the XML file from the server. Now I need to allow the user to upload the same XML file they created earlier and put it back