Delays opening Excel/Word files off samba shares.

[Mitch McNeel]

We have had this problem also.  What I did (found) was to change the smb.conf 
parameter "oplock break wait time" to 10 milliseconds.  This seemed to reduce 
the number of clients have the delay on opening Word and Excel documents.  Try 
this out and let me know.

Example:

[global]

	oplock break wait time = 10 (default is zero 0)

Mitch

Pierre Belanger wrote:

>>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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