OK, need some help with Win2K clients real bad

[Charles Marcus]

Hi everyone,

OK, this is driving me nuts, and I'd really appreciate some help from those
who are intimately familiar with the way the Locks, etc work with Win2K
clients...

We have an ACT database that is shared among about 25 Users, all Win2K
clients.

I have tried and tried and tried again to move this database over to my
Linux (Redhat 7.0 with almost all 7.1 patches) server running SAMBA, both in
'Share' mode and 'User' mode.  I haven't tried 'Server' or 'Domain' modes
yet.  I've tried with 2.07, and I've tried with 2.2a3, all to no avail.

Everything works just fine, until everyone has been logged in and been using
the system for 20 to 30 minutes.  Then we start getting weird errors, saying
'something can't be saved', and 'ACT has experienced an error'.  Nothing
that crashes the database (although we had major corruption problems with
2.07), just major problems working.

Would someone mind giving me some precise recommendations for settings for
the locking options and any other options that will make this work?  If I
can't make it work soon, my boss is gonna lose confidence in this
(Linux/SAMBA) as a viable alternative to Win2K Server, and that would be
bad, bad, bad.

Tia for any suggestions anyone can provide...

Charles Marcus