OK, need some help with Win2K clients real bad

[DigiProd]

Just for grins..
I too have seen problems with various databases.
I set up a test with 5 Win2K machines all using the same databases. (DBase3)
and found that after time (3 hours or so), those machines started reporting
problems reading and writing to those files (codebase errors). All machines
were built the same. When the machines were setup to hit the database for an
hour then stop.. and access again for another hour, the problems would
happen in a time frame that you are seeing.

To verify further, the same server (RH 6.2 w/2.07) was tested with 5 NT4.0
machines using the same databases. The NT4.0 machines had no problems and
were reliable as always.

I know that Win2K has added ODBC support for databases. I do not have any
other info on this as of yet but hope to soon.
I am not entirly convinced that this is a Samba problem. The same system
works like a charm w/NT4.0 just not with Win2K. Basic troubleshooting would
point to the 2K's but it's hard to pin it down to one or the other.

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Marcus <CharlesM at media-Brokers.com>
To: Samba Maillist (E-mail) <samba at lists.samba.org>
Date: Thursday, April 12, 2001 11:15 AM
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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