Juan Ignacio Barbosa wrote:
Hi, I'm having an odd behaviour with a samba file server (3.0.14a) on ubuntu 5.10 breezy an MS access files. When a user open an mdb file, this file can't be opened by anyone else by doubleclicking on it, (simply nothing happens), BUT if I open Ms Access and then open the file manually from there, there is no problem. I'v tried on Windows XP shares and this is not happening. I'v tried a newer version of ubuntu+samba (6.06+3.0.24) but the problem it's still there. Any idea how to solve this, if posible?
While I can't help you much with the samba side of things, I can tell you that you should avoid having multiple people accessing the same Access mdb file at once. While Access is supposed to support this in theory, in practice it doesn't work that well, and I would be particularly paranoid about having it sitting on a samba server ( sorry ).
Are you using Access to store the data, or just as a front-end with linked tables? If you're using linked tables, then get everyone to create a local copy of the Access mdb file and use the local copy. If you're using Access to store your data ( which is in itself asking for trouble ), then disregard what I've just said and keep looking for a solution ... and investigate moving your data to a database server and linking the tables in Access ( or even better, getting rid of Access completely ).
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