[Samba] Excel File Open Issue - Possibly Samba Related
Chad Vincent
chad at rhiannonweb.com
Wed Mar 9 15:06:52 GMT 2005
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We're still on Office 9 (2000), and the article lists "Share Workbook"
as a workaround, and those are the files we're having issues with.
As far as why it's named Saskatchewan, that's listed as a time zone, and
it's dealing with timestamps... Perhaps tricking the timestamp check?
klubarpop wrote:
> We were having the same problem with Excel ... Different version of Samba.
> Applying a fix detailed in MS KB # 324491 solved the problem for us. (We
> use Office 11 although the fix talks about Office 10 -- Office 11 = Office
> 2003 Office 10 = Office XP for those who don't keep up with such things.)
>
> Do a search for QFE_Saskatchewan for the registry key. Anyone have any idea
> why the key is named Saskatchewan?
>
> Hope this helps
> Ken Lubar
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-bounces+klubarpop=emiboston.com at lists.samba.org
> [mailto:samba-bounces+klubarpop=emiboston.com at lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of
> Chad Vincent
> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 9:39 AM
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Excel File Open Issue - Possibly Samba Related
>
> Okay.... Problem did not go away. I un-shared (multi-user) the file to
> clear out the changelog, and the problem did go away. At this point I'm
> going to assume a malformed entry in the changelog or a changelog that was
> just too darn big. (Before, size was 25MB, after removing sharing it was
> 2.5MB and opened in 1/8th the time.)
>
> HOWEVER, upon upgrading to 3.0.11 as suggested, now ALL shared
> (multi-user) Excel files are, at apparent random, displaying a message "This
> file has been locked. To save changes you must save under a different file
> name and merge....(blah, blah)" We never had this problem under 3.0.7. I
> have "log level=1" and nothing is showing up in the logs.
>
> (Just for example, user A opens purchasing.xls fine, but B gets the error.
> B can open schedule.xls fine, but A gets the error. C can open both. Have
> not seen this behavior on non-shared files.)
>
> These files HAVE to be shared, and I have even tried with veto
> oplocks=/*.xls/ with no apparent change.
>
> Jeremy Allison wrote:
>
>>>On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 02:45:43PM -0500, Chad Vincent wrote:
>>>
>>>
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>>>>Having a workstation with an odd glitch, and I'm hoping someone can
>>>>help. We have a 35MB shared Excel file with our purchasing history in
>>>>it. (I know, I've been trying to talk them into a database of some
>>>>sort, but they'll have none of that...)
>>>>
>>>>One workstation in the entire plant is having issues opening it. The
>>>>file will load, it will change status to [Shared] in the titlebar,
>>>>then stop.
>>>>
>>>>Bad Workstation:
>>>>Windows 2000
>>>>Athlon 1600+
>>>>256MB DDR 333
>>>>Soyo Dragon KT333 Ultra Black
>>>>Realtek 8139 on-board (Also tried PCI 8139)
>>>>
>>>>Server:
>>>>Debian Stable
>>>>2x Opteron 240
>>>>Broadcom "tg3" 1000Mb NIC
>>>>Samba 3.0.7-1 as a PDC
>>>
>>>
>>>You need to upgrade. There have been several fixes in this area to do
>>>with the rather strange way Excel uses SMB. None of them should cause
>>>the client to disconnect, although a deferred open problem could
>>>conceivably do this. It's just that many people are reporting much
>>>better results with Excel and 3.0.11.
>>>
>>>Jeremy.
>>>
>>>
>
>
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> Chad Vincent
> RhiannonWeb
> chad at rhiannonweb.com
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