Samba & Win98

[marchino at leotron.com]

Hello everybody!

this is my second post, as nobody answered my first question. I think it was 
too general, so this time I'll try to be more specific.
I've installed a Samba box based on Slakware Linux 3.0 kernel 2.0.34, samba 
1.9.18p8. This box is installed in a small local network with a NT4 Server and a 
Novell 4.01 Server. Clients are all Windows 95 except for two Win98 units.

Samba server has worked fine until Win98 appeared, then they started having 
problems. The problem is related to the use of different applications.

For example, they use an invoice application based on a MDB database stored 
on Samba share. The client access the db using an ODBC driver. If the client is 
Win95, everything works fine. If the same application runs on Win98, the 
application fails reading the database and showing an error message like "I/O 
error to the file". Sometimes (very seldom actually) the file gets corrupted, 
normally it doesn't.
An important thing is this: the problem arises only if the database is shared by 
more than one operator. It seems (but I'm not really sure) that if the db is used 
by just one client, it works correctly. I want to point out that the problem comes 
only if one of the clients is using Win98. If all the clients are Win95 everything 
works fine.

Enclosed you'll find smb.conf and a piece of the errorlog (level=5).

Hope somebody could help,

marchino

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