It's highly likely it's a locking issue..

Rob
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From: "Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 4:22 PM
Subject: [SLUG] debugging ODBC / samba


> Hello.
> 
> Wondering how other sluggers might go about debugging this little 
> problem.
> 
> I have set up a samba server (smbd Version 2.999+3.0.alpha24-3 for 
> Debian) to serve an MYOB data file to three clients on a network. the 
> actual MYOB part seems to work ok (once we gave the server enough RAM - 
> 32M RAM it seems is not enough these days :-)  But there is a second 
> program that uses ODBC to query the data file and it runs like a 
> proverbial something.. unusably slow. The data file is set up as a 
> System DSN in the ODBC control panel in win2k. I've run tethereal on 
> the connection to the server and see a lot of SMB AndX Read requests 
> from the client and not a lot of replies going back.  I think i need to 
> work on tuning samba with this but am unsure where to start. As i say 
> the performance of the non-ODBC SMB connections seems acceptable now.. 
> but until i can get the ODBC driver working I'm unable to complete the 
> move and finish the project.
> 
> Any hints most welcome. :)
> 
> cheers,
> ..S.
> 
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