Daniel Kasak escribió: > 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 ). > Thank you for your answer. Well I can't agree more with you and if i could i won't be using Access at all :-) It's a small database without linked tables, and should not get many concurrent users, perhaps 2 or 3. Anyway, in the meantime i'v been able to solve the problem. It seems that not been in the local network trusted sites was causing the problem. When I add the site (internet explorer options), everything works fine, at least right now :-)
Juan Ignacio Barbosa --
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