Excel and Word file corruptions

[David Collier-Brown]

  Has anyone seen file corruption with Excel 97 SR1, on Samba?
Scotty (scott at 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 drives because it is ticking
> them off....obviously not ideal...it took me long enough to get them out
> of this habit! Do I now have to try to sell them a NT box?


He's suspicious of locking, and has turned off oplocks:
>         ole locking compatibility = Yes
>         oplock break wait time = 10
>         lock directory = /usr/local/samba/var/locks
>         veto oplock files =
>         blocking locks = Yes
>         fake oplocks = No
>         locking = Yes
>         oplocks = No
>         level2 oplocks = No
>         oplock contention limit = 2
>         strict locking = No
>         share modes = Yes
	   ...
> [homes]
>         comment = UNIX Home Directories
>         path = %H
>         valid users = %S
>         writeable = Yes
>         browseable = No


--dave
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