[Samba] MS Access

[tms3 at tms3.com]

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> I need to have a server built and ready to install by this weekend, 
> and I'm
> trying to decide whether to use the customer's copy of Windows 2000 
> Server,

Seriously?
http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive/2010/01/14/windows-2000-server-approaching-end-of-life.aspx
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> or Ubuntu or Centos. I think Ubuntu would have a newer version of 
> samba.

One can always build from source.
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> The problem is, for this one server, about 20 users hammer MS Access
> databases all day, and samba seems to have had issues with Access in 
> the
> past. Is that still the case?

Access has issues. What version? Most problems seem to boil down to 
file perms. I rarely had problems with Access files on FreeBSD/Samba 
platforms.
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> The old server is dying, and they own Windows 2000 Server so it won't 
> cost
> them $$ to continue using the OS,
You'd best check the licensing. They most certainly don't "own" W2K 
server.
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> but it cannot take advantage of newer
> hardware/technologies, so its slower.
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> Thanks for any info...
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