[Samba] Microsoft OneNote 2007 painfully slow

[Robert LeBlanc]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Andrew Masterson <
Andrew.Masterson at nuvistaenergy.com> wrote:

>
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> [mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Robert LeBlanc
> Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 2:45 PM
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> Subject: [Samba] Microsoft OneNote 2007 painfully slow
>
> We have a user trying to share a OneNote 2007 notebook and it takes
> minutes
> to load a 20 KB notebook. I've opened a 500 KB Excel spreadsheet from
> the
> same share and it took seconds. Has anyone else run into this problem?
> We
> are running Samba 3.4.8 on Debian Squeeze.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Robert LeBlanc
> Life Sciences & Undergraduate Education Computer Support
> Brigham Young University
>
>
> ---------------------------------------
>
> When I have run into stuff like this it is because an application is
> trying to modify security permissions on the files that it doesn't have
> the right to (like with creater\owner, etc.).  Given that M$ is fond of
> creating temporary lock files, etc. you may want to start looking there
> first.
>
> -=Andrew
>

I don't recall seeing any temp files like Word/Excel/etc 2007 (we ran into
that problem, in fact I still have a script running every 15 minutes to scan
the file system and 'fix' the permissions). I'll watch the directory as I
open up the NoteBook and see if I can see any funny business.

Thanks,

Robert LeBlanc
Life Sciences & Undergraduate Education Computer Support
Brigham Young University