[Samba] Excel File Problems - continue

[hevans at mac.com]

Hi all.

I am running Samba on OSX.

Everything runs well except I get the occasional reports from my users 
that they cannot open Excel files (Office2000 on Windows2000/XP 
clients) . They will try a second, and maybe a third time time and the 
file will open.

The error message in the windows clients  tends to be along the lines of

" thefile.xls cannot be accessed. The file may be read-only, or you may 
be trying to access a read-only location. Or, the server the document 
is stored on may not be responding "

On rare occasions - a user may be able to open a file but not write 
back to the server drive... OR locally. The error message is something 
like "unable to save to disk". However, he can continue to open, save 
and close other excel files and also open a new document and copy the 
bad files workbooks to the new file and save that off...... (back to 
the server). This is quite rare - I might see it once a week with 60 
users.

Below, I have an example of my error logs on the server... Has anybody 
experienced this kind of behavior? - Any help would be appreciated.

Regards,

Hugh Evans



[2003/03/13 08:55:26, 0] 
/SourceCache/samba/samba-21/source/smbd/oplock.c:oplock_break(843)
   oplock_break: client failure in break - shutting down this smbd.
[2003/03/13 08:58:54, 0] 
/SourceCache/samba/samba-21/source/smbd/oplock.c:oplock_break(758)
   oplock_break: receive_smb error (Undefined error: 0)
   oplock_break failed for file 
Accounting/Digital_Documents/Accounting_2001/a14174.pdf (dev = e000016, 
inode = 204152, file_id = 22).
[2003/03/13 08:58:54, 0] 
/SourceCache/samba/samba-21/source/smbd/oplock.c:oplock_break(843)
   oplock_break: client failure in break - shutting down this smbd.
[2003/03/13 08:59:08, 0] 
/SourceCache/samba/samba-21/source/lib/util_sock.c:read_data(436)
   read_data: read failure for 4. Error = Connection reset by peer
[2003/03/13 09:26:26, 0] 
/SourceCache/samba/samba-21/source/lib/util_sock.c:read_data(436)
   read_data: read failure for 4. Error = Operation timed out
[2003/03/13 09:42:30, 0] 
/SourceCache/samba/samba-21/source/lib/util_sock.c:read_data(436)
   read_data: read failure for 4. Error = Connection reset by peer
[2003/03/13 09:52:44, 0] 
/SourceCache/samba/samba-21/source/lib/util_sock.c:read_data(436)
   read_data: read failure for 4. Error = Connection reset by peer
[2003/03/13 10:02:39, 0] 
/SourceCache/samba/samba-21/source/lib/util_sock.c:read_data(436)
   read_data: read failure for 4. Error = Connection reset by peer