[Samba] 2nd POSTING: Samba PDC shares causing errors in MS Word 97 SR2

jra at dp.samba.org jra at dp.samba.org
Mon Nov 18 23:33:00 GMT 2002


On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 09:02:17AM +1100, Tom Pride wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I support around 15 Windows 2000 Clients who log into and have home 
> directories on a  Samba PDC running under RedHat 7.3.  The version of 
> samba I am using is 2.5.5.  All the clients use Word97 SR2 and they all 
> get the following error while working on documents stored on their home 
> directories on the PDC:
> 
> Word failed reading from this file (filename.doc). Please restore the 
> network connection or replace the floppy disc and retry.
> 
> This error will simply pop up while the user is typing or if the 
> document is just left open for a while.  If a user works on a document 
> stored on thier PC's local hard drive then the error will not occur. The 
> network is not dropping out at any stage.  Is their a setting in the 
> smb.conf that might fix this problem and has anyone else come accross 
> this before?  Please help.

Can you get a debug level 10 of this problem.

Thanks,

	Jeremy.



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