OK, need some help with Win2K clients real bad

[DigiProd]

digi> I'd be intrestead to see what you get when you add a few more 2K's to
the network. If you get the chance, try it.

I can imagine a machine that is running a local copy of the database will
work wonderfully. That, however kinda defeats the purpose.

I would not give up on Linux or Samba just yet. Some things just take time.
I'm just hopeing that someone has been able to figure out why. If the group
knows of something to try or look for, I'd be happy to test or look for what
I can.


-----Original Message-----
From: Edward Muller <emuller at learningpatterns.com>
To: Charles Marcus <CharlesM at media-Brokers.com>; Samba Maillist (E-mail)
<samba at lists.samba.org>
Date: Friday, April 13, 2001 9:18 AM
Subject: RE: OK, need some help with Win2K clients real bad


>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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