Delays opening Excel/Word files off samba shares.

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Steven Haigh wrote:

> Now the problems begin. We have around 250 employees, and around 50 or
> so of them are heavy excel/word users. When opening a small excel
> file, the operation can take up to 2 minutes. Most of this time
> appears to be network (read samba) related. The application (in this
> case Excel) will just sit there waiting.

Check the default printer.  Word/Excel attempt to grab printer properties
wen opening a document for formatting purposes.  Also grab a level 10
debug log and look at what is going on.







chau, jerry
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