hallo, please see answers below > Does the application create temporary files? Or does it try to create > temporary files? Can you configure the app to use the local client hard > drive for temporary files. I found that some MS Office Apps do funny > things with file permissions that are more likely to show up on a Samba > server (mapping NTFS to Unix permissions) than on a Windows file server > (native NTFS.)
the shortcuts for the app use start in = network path and running directory = c:\ (used for tmp files) > > What version of Novell Netware? Were you using IPX/SPX or TCP/IP? Where > you using the Netware client from Novell or the one from Microsoft? the workstations had the novell netware client installed on (version 4 if I am not mistaking) and the server was from around '96-'99 > Are you using a UNC path (e.g. \\myserver\share1) or drive mappings to the > network share (e.g. P: is mapped to \\myserver\share1.) there is a script ran from startup which states something like net use r: \\ip.add.re.ss\share /persistent:yes /USER:\user password I have my reasons not to have a domain deployed there I had a windows 2003 server installed as a virtual machine and will test tomorrow if the behaviour is the same I would like to keep the samba deployment, though ... > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Petre Bandac > Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 6:56 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Samba] samba replacing novell > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > hallo > > I have decomissioned an old novell netware serving as fileserver for a > foxpro app with a samba virtual freebsd machine under vmware esxi > > all works ok (time of response when browsing folders, throughput at > speed tests, etc), except the following foxpro related issues which I > could not solve in the last week: > > - - when ran from LAN, the app randomly freezes from time to time > > - - when ran from a remote location (connected via openvpn), the app takes > a very long time to open, and when searching for records it takes more > than 2-3 minutes to display the results of the query (even though other > tests have shown the connectivity is ok and file transfer is as fast as > the line allows) - this happens even if this workstation is the only one > accesing the fileserver > > this behavior appeared only after switching from novell to samba > > the question which would summarize this situation would be "what exactly > did the novell netware for the foxpro app which samba does/cannot do?" > > I have tried with > > level2 oplocks = no > oplocks = no > > added IPTOS_THROUGHPUT to socket options > > and the same result > > testparm output is below > > > thank you for your time, > > petre > > ## > > [global] > workgroup = SOME_WORKGROUP > server string = fileserver > security = SHARE > map to guest = Bad Password > guest account = conta > client lanman auth = Yes > log file = /var/log/samba34/log.%m > max log size = 50 > socket options = SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 TCP_NODELAY > dns proxy = No > wins support = Yes > > > - -- > > Petre Bandac > > Network Scientist > > - - > [email protected] > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iD8DBQFM6wL9wAhp/odORYgRAriGAKCbR46R9Yko64aWuMxK9z8/af/FCACfV6Am > Qfm0+MMXKRrzli3rNFKhhf8= > =qTzg > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
