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> Samba 2.0.7 patched - File server is PCD, DNS2, WINS and 
Which patches have you installed?  ie did you install a pam patch or
something different?

> dhcp.(will be going over to 2.2.2 soon - some nice things there).
yeah, hopefully v3 will come out soon too, winbind sounds like a step
forward.

> 
> Clients logon to domain.
no domain environment, just a simple workgroup.

> 
> Clients also have correct tcp/ip naming convention, with 
> Windows domain name different.
> ie sys1.domain.com.au, with windows domain not being "domain" 
> but kingdom, as windows
> screws up smb/netbios to tcp/ip. Richard Sharp's latest book 
> on Samba is very good
> (still waiting for John Terpstra to get off his ass and write his).
>   
> 
> ClientAcc.prm lives on Linux partition (ext2) in the share 
mine lives on a raid1 ext2 partition

> "homes" - will send smb.conf file latter as on laptop.
That would be nice.  I havnt tuned any file locking on this server,
so maybe that is what is what needs to be done?

> 
> Have found the file locking ok, but what I have found is that 
> the MYOB dbase file .prm
> is very flakey - tested it on windoses NT & 2000, I mean, 
> that the some problem occurs.
> The dbase file corrupts - especially as it gets bigger ie 
> 200/300Mb +. So you need to
> make sure that your client - first on to logon optomises the 
> file first - or you can
> write a little script for when the user logs on to the domain.
Yeah we notice the same with a 150meg prm file.  Very unstable format
to store data, imho.


Cheers,
Steve

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