[Samba] Very slow initial opening MS-Word and MS-Excel files from Samba

[Aaron Kincer]

Is there any difference in behavior when you open the files from within 
the applications themselves so that you can remove the application load 
time from the equation?

Just a little FYI--MS Office is a strange animal in how it and Samba 
play together. It is not uncommon to see behavior there that you don't 
see anywhere else. For example--I'd pay good money to see a Samba 
configuration where MS Word (2003) sets the archive bit properly after a 
file is edited.

Also, as others have mentioned, Windows and its applications can have 
long memories about servers contacted in the past. For example, the list 
of recently opened files.

I doubt this would have an effect, but just for giggles you could flush 
the dns cache (ipconfig /flushdns)

Berend Tober wrote:
> Berend Tober wrote:
> > Aaron Kincer wrote:
> >> ...
>>> Do you get the same behavior if you attempt to open a .doc file
>>> with Open Office?
> >
>> The answer is yes to that, but I would estimate that it is a little
>> less noticeable.
>
>
> Let me correct that. It is a lot less noticable. Maybe even it doesn't 
> happen and I'm seeing is the difference in load time for the OO 
> software. Hard to tell for sure. Definitely it is not as bad with OO.
>
>>
>> Lastly, I'm not sure what happens when you use true or false as a 
>> value for oplocks and level2 oplocks, but I thought the values were 
>> either yes or no.
>
> Using "no" in place of "false" made not difference.
>
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