[Samba] Re: Problems with Excel & MS Word files (EVEN - still ANY ideas?)

[Jonathan Johnson]

Jeremy Allison wrote:

>On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 11:58:40AM -0400, Nathan Vidican wrote:
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>>Since applying the two patches you emailed me (one for cpu load, one for MS
>>Excel issues):
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>>All is working fine now except MS Word; don't know if it's entirely related
>>or a separate issue all together, but figured I'd post the details and see
>>if you can think of anything; here's the behaior:
>>
>>Word (apparently) creates a "~384somerandomnamefile.tmp" when a user saves,
>>the actual file they opened goes to 0 bytes, their smbd process goes to 100%
>>CPU load, MS Word locks up. We forcefully kill their smbd process, rename
>>the ~whatever.tmp file to their original whatever.doc file, restart their PC
>>(else word acts up stupid), and we're good to go... Until the next time it
>>happens.
>>
>>Apparently random files, and varyinf users/network segments as before.
>>Excel, powerpoint, etc not locking up nor causing similar issues at all
>>anyore - just MS Word. I think it might have something to do with the
>>autosave feature, or some sort of option in word making it create/deal with
>>the tmp files but I really don't understand or know the bahavior well enough
>>to fix it entirely on my own. Help?
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>Can you get me a debug level 10 log on this ? I'm currently working on ACL
>behaviour with MS-Office.
>
>Jeremy.
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You might want to take a look at these two Microsoft Knowledge Base 
articles:

"Long delay in the display of file names from the "Open" dialog box in 
Office XP"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/818792

"The File Open dialog box does not automatically select the first 
available document in an Office 2003 program"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832889

I don't know exactly what your problem is, but the above articles may 
keep you from chasing the wrong horse. :-)

~Jonathan Johnson
Sutinen Consulting, Inc.
jon at sutinen.com