I'll let someone with more knowledge than I get into the RAID buffer discussions but just wanted to make sure you had the same smb.conf on the two machines? And therefore had oplocks turned off?
A recent posting which you might have already seen: 1. Always run the Access database application, (Forms, code, queries, ...) on a client workstation and have the back-end data on the server. The application container links to the shared tables on the server. 2. Oplocks = no 3. Kernel Oplocks = no 4. Level2 Oplocks = no 5. Blocking Locks = yes 6. Locking = yes 7. Strict Locking = no 8. Share Modes = yes Success will be improved if you follow the pessimistic locking model for most of your data access. This means that the edited record is always locked. You should do this regardless of whether you use Windows or Samba on your back end server. This also applies to point number 1. HTH Noel -----Original Message----- From: Harry Mills [mailto:harry@;navaho.co.uk] Sent: 28 October 2002 08:57 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Samba] MS Access and RAID Hi, We have been having a few problems with a M$ Access DB held on a Samba server Samba version: samba-2.2.4-2N1 We have rebuilt a new server, and transferred the database over to the new box, along with word/excel docs etc. Everything is working fine, except the access database, which is running very very slowly (can be over a minute to open a record). Details are a little sketchy, but it would seem that when the new server is being used, one workstation has reasonable access speeds, but subsequent workstations are slow - although this could be a 'user diagnosis syndrome' ;) The access binary is held locally on the workstations. If you transfer the database back to the old samba server, it runs fine. The two servers are running the same version of samba, same Kernel (2.4.18). The workstations are Windows98, doing domain logons to the Samba server. The only difference I can see between the old and new servers, is the new server has two raided (mirror) IDE drives, the old server is a single drive box. There are no errors on the NICS, oplocks are off for *.mdb and *.ldb and tcpdump shosw data flowing consistently between the server and the workstation. The Load Ave on the box is near enough 0.0. For the moment, I have put them back on the old server. Any help would be gratefully received - bit stumped on this one! -- Harry Mills DDI:01749 812100 Educational Development Manager Fax:01749 812749 Navaho Technologies Main Office: 0870 7034015 http://www.navaho.co.uk/ -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.404 / Virus Database: 228 - Release Date: 15/10/2002 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.404 / Virus Database: 228 - Release Date: 15/10/2002 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba