AW: Files corrupt under Win98, MS Office

[Rudolf Kollien]

I runned in similar problems with win95 some month ago. Upgrading the samba
server to version 2.0.5a solved this problem.

Regards

Rudolf Kollien
email: Rudolf.Kollien at medas.de
       Rudolf.Kollien at kollien.de
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> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: samba at samba.org [mailto:samba at samba.org]Im Auftrag von Ortwin Gentz
> Gesendet am: Dienstag, 12. Oktober 1999 12:08
> An: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA
> Betreff: Files corrupt under Win98, MS Office
>
> I have a network with Samba 2.0.2 and Win 98 clients. Sometimes
> it seems that
> Samba corrupts files saved from MS Office on a Samba server
> volume. In the samba
> log file I can see something like
>
> [1999/07/26 14:58:24, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection(488)
>   ulla (172.20.4.4) connect to service Buero as user ulla
> (uid=1004, gid=101)
> (pid 606)
> [1999/07/26 14:58:25, 0] smbd/dir.c:dptr_close(280)
>   Invalid key 256 given to dptr_close
> [1999/07/26 14:58:25, 0] smbd/dir.c:dptr_close(280)
>   Invalid key 257 given to dptr_close
>
> In June 98 there was a thread in this list "NT4 Clients getting
> error 3013" that
> seemed to show a similar problem under Windows NT. The solution
> was to change
> the registry keys
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Rdr\Parameters
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Lanmanworksta
> tion\parameters
>
> to tune the NT file caching settings on the clients.
>
> It seems that I need the same for Win 98. However this special Key is not
> existent in Windows 98.
> What should I do?
>
> Ortwin Gentz
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