Not sure if this has anything to do with Samba: I try and stay away from Access but a few years ago we had similar problems with Access on a Novell server. It kept corrupting and looking at the Access documentation it seems that Access is not a multiuser database unless you program it to be. So you need to manually code all the database locking etc - an out-of-the-box one is only good for single user.
HTH Noel -----Original Message----- From: Oliver Krehan [mailto:okrehan@;karlsruhe.actaris.com] Sent: 18 October 2002 12:56 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Samba] MS Access and Samba Hi, we still have some trouble running a MS Access-database on Samba. We now tried it with v.2.2.6 on RH 7.3 but still we either get no acces on the database simultanously or we run in problems with updating the database. The problem is that we make some changes on one of the clients but the changes are not visible to the other clients until they shut down the database and reopen it. We tried all lock options but there appears always one of the problems described above. If we disable oplocks in any way, only one client can open the db. We also tried to update the W2K-clients to SP3 because I read something about problems with oplocks on W2K-SP2 but nothing helped. A Google search on this problem brought up an article that MS Access has huge problems running on Samba or any other file-server-system than Windows. Has anyone ever get an Access-db running on more than 2 clients simultaneously and if yes, could you please give us some helpfull hints ? Thanks in advance. Oliver -- Oliver Krehan IT Security Assistent Actaris Hardeckstrasse 2 76185 Karlsruhe, Germany Tel: +49 721 5981 325 Fax: +49 721 5981 189 http://www.actaris.com -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.394 / Virus Database: 224 - Release Date: 03/10/2002 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.401 / Virus Database: 226 - Release Date: 09/10/2002 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
