Delays opening Excel/Word files off samba shares.

[Pierre Belanger]

> it takes about 1 minute to open a excel-file
>
This really looks like the problem I am having with the traffic
on port 135/UDP (Microsoft Localisation Server ... loc-srv).

When I open a Word file which has a link to a visio file, I see traffic
coming on port 135 from the Windows workstation. Because there's
nothing on my Samba server listening on port 135, the Windows
station "times out" and then finishes reading the files.

Does your Excel file has external links to another file? Can you
check with tcpdump what's the traffic between your samba server
and your windows client box and let us know what's going on... ??

Pierre B.

Anders Widman wrote:
> 
> 2001-12-17 18:14:32, "Gerald (Jerry) Carter" <jerry at samba.org> wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Charles Marcus wrote:
> >
> >> This is another area that concerns me.
> >>
> >> I've been reading a lot about problems with Office files.
> >>
> >> Does anyone know of the specific circumstances where these problems
> >> arise? Or is it a mystery?
> >
> >We attempt to do regression testiong specifically against Office
> >97/2000/XP and are not seeing these delays in our tests.
> >Doesn't mean that they aren't real.  We just are seeing them during
> >development.
> >
> >To the original poster: Can you try to reproduce this against the
> >latest SAMBA_2_2 cvs code?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >chau, jerry
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> Well.. I have this problem also. This does not happen verry often, but when it does, it takes about 1 minute to open a excel-file.
> 
> //Anders
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