[Samba] opening excel sheets slow, copying fast ?

[Holger Krull]

Hello all,

what is Excel doing while opening a file?

There is no delay when opening the same file localy or on a windows 2000 
server. But on the samba server it needs 10 seconds. But copying the 
same file (32K) has no delay at all. (With larger files things get 
worse, while coping a 60 MB file takes 8 seconds)
Other mails mentioned recommended to disable oplocks, but this didn't 
change anything.

Any hint available where to look at?

Bye
  Holger


My smb.conf looks like

[global]
	workgroup = HERMOS
	netbios name = HERMOS2
         server string = Hermos
         comment = Domain
	encrypt passwords = Yes
	map to guest = Never
	socket options = SO_KEEPALIVE IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY
# SO_SNDBUF=8760 SO_RCVBUF=8760
	character set = ISO8859-15
	add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g machines -c 
'Machine Account' -s /bin/false -M %u
	logon script = %G.cmd
	logon path = \\hermos2\profiles\%u
	logon drive = H:
	logon home = \\hermos2\homes\%u
	domain logons = Yes
	os level = 66
	preferred master = True
	domain master = True
	wins support = Yes
         time server = yes
	printing = cups
         printcap name = cups
         printer admin = @users, root, netzadmin
	interfaces = eth0:0
	bind interfaces only = yes
         domain admin group = netzadmin
#        oplocks=no
#        kernel oplocks = no
#        level2 oplocks = no
#        max xmit=32767

[Programme]
	path = /samba/programme
	delete readonly = yes
	create mode = 0770
	writeable = yes
	directory mode = 0770
         hide unreadable = yes