On 25 September 2010 15:03, Ronnie Tucker <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've hooked up my little EEE 701 PC (with Linux Mint 9) to a Windows > 2000 (server) network so that I can use OOo, but when I ask OOo to save > a (measly 2mb) spreadsheet to the Windows 2000 server it takes about > five minutes (honestly!) to save the file. If I save directly to the EEE > it saves in no time. > > I'm using a vanilla install of Mint 9, haven't changed any settings on > the EEE. > > Is there anything I can do on the EEE to speed things up? > > Any advice is much appreciated > (all be it that I can't do anything with it now until Tuesday, holiday > Monday FTW!) > > My experience with OpenOffice over Windows networking has never been good and I tend to end up saving the file locally and copying it to the server for storage. Things might improve if you do configure Windows sharing properly on the Eee - try setting up authentication against the Windows domain and adding 'wins' to the hosts option in /etc/nsswitch.conf. Windows 2000 doesn't seem to be wholly compatible with samba though - it seems to require encrypted passwords on the Linux side for one. s/ -- My CV: http://bit.ly/sfgreenwood_cv Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/simonfgreenwood Twitter: @sfgreenwood
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