Joseph, I'd like to thank you for your diligent attention to detail and particularly for reporting your findings. This is a real gem of a contribution that may save someone else many days of frustration.
Cheers, John T. On Wed, 12 May 2004, Joseph Healy wrote: > Hi, > > We had similar, very baffleing symptoms with MYOB Premier opening and > accessing it's datafiles. > > operations on the file would take between 40 and 45 seconds. > > It turned out that it was a printer monitor program running on the > clients causing the problems. Looking at the logs, we saw them coming > through with pauses of about 1 second between groups. > > Stopping the monitor software resulted in the networks access at normal > (quick) speed. Restarting the program caused the speed to slow down > again. The printer was a cannon lbp810 and the relevant task was > something like CAPON (not sure on spelling). The monitor software > displayed a printing now dialog on the client when they printed. > > We only discovered this by starting with a clean install of windows and > trying the app at every step of the installation of other software > process. (had to do this many times) > > Moral of the story, check everything (other software included)! > > Hope it is not something like this (it will be painful to find) > > Joe Healy > > On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 10:59:35AM +0200, Eric Maisonobe wrote: > > Hello ! > > > > I've installed serveral servers under Linux in my association with samba on > > it, without any problem. > > > > But, for the latest application we need to use, samba has to share about 800 > > borland data files. > > > > All goes right, but the systeme (P3-800Mhz-256Mo RAM for 8 users) is very, > > VERY slow (about 40 second to open the application). > > > > I've take a look at the system use, even when a client open a session, and : > > -> the processor is use about ... 3% (97%free) !!! > > -> Mem : 23Mo used...233Mo free !!! > > -> average load : about 0,01 !!! > > > > I've put log level = 0, correct wins server adress, socket options = > > TCP_NODELAY > > > > and my share is : > > [c] > > comment = Disk C > > path = /home/c > > browseable = yes > > admin users = guest nobody # I know, it's bad ;-)) but requiered by the > > appli > > writable = yes > > public = yes > > create mode = 777 > > > > > > Any help would be welcome ! > > > > Eric MAISONOBE > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > -- John H Terpstra Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba