Erm... I I haven't seen any warnings about that anywhere... There is nothing in the Samba release notes about it....

I've had myob files being shared via samba without a hitch...  (Even over a VPN.)

Any further references about this?

Warmest regards

Mike
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Micheal I remember seeing something on this list before about samba and myob being a "bad thing". ie corrupted data files etc I'm sure there were some tips there.


Jeff



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> G'day Stewart and all...
>
> Check out the force-group option for the share in smb.conf and check
> that group has read/write/execute permissions set on the
> directory/directories at the filesystem level.
>
> Warmest regards
>
> Mike
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> "Robert Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> It's highly likely it's a locking issue..
>
> Rob
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> From: "Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Subject: [SLUG] debugging ODBC / samba
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>
> > 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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