OK, need some help with Win2K clients real bad

[Edward Muller]

I am using Samba 2.0.7 with an Act database and Windows NT clients. I had
one Windows 2K client on the network at one point without any problems, but
that was a laptop and it now has it's own replica of the Act Database. We
haven't had any corruption of our large Database (18K+ records) AFAICT.

[ACTDatabase]
    path = /home/LPc/ACTDatabase/current
    browseable = yes
    guest ok = no
    writable = yes
    valid users = @LPc
    preserve case = yes
    short preserve case = yes
    force create mode = 0775
    force directory mode = 0775
    force group = LPc

I have no special locking settings in the global section of my smb.conf
file. I use the force* settings to make sure the user/group
permissions/settings don't get f'd up by the various users. And only those
users who are in the LPC group can access the share.

Hope that helps.

-----Original Message-----
From: samba-admin at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-admin at lists.samba.org]On
Behalf Of Charles Marcus
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 12:20 PM
To: Samba Maillist (E-mail)
Subject: OK, need some help with Win2K clients real bad


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


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