RE: [Samba] Problems with MS Office (Excel/Word) & Samba 3.0.11, (moved to testing 3.0.12-RC1) attn Jerry
In our experience, the network delay had to do with a couple of things: #1 - name resolution, some machines were using WINS, othere DNS, others nothing at all - changed all machines to dhcp clients using WINS & DNS - fixed a lot #2 - NDS/Novell client issues, running Novell Netware & samba not work well when neither know's of the other's existence, since we're retiring Novell server anyhow - removal of Netware Client drastically sped up browsing on clients (not to mention, means we are running solely tcpip - no more IPX/SPC protocol) #3 - One network, one protocol. We have since moved any of the remaining Netware clients (which must remain for accounting software packages amongst other things) to purely tcpip clients, thus removing all IPX/SPX traffic from the LAN. We also subnetted the office and shop networks independantly as the various shop machines don't need to resolve from the windows clients at all. Just a few housecleaning items which really should have been done anyways, but figured they were worth mentioning in case anyone else has been experiencing delays too. -- Nathan Vidican [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmplt.com/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gerald (Jerry) Carter Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 9:09 AM To: david rankin Cc: samba Subject: Re: [Samba] Problems with MS Office (Excel/Word) & Samba 3.0.11,(moved to testing 3.0.12-RC1) attn Jerry -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 david rankin wrote: |I don't know if this is related, but I am still having fits in | Office 2003 with the file open dialog hanging for 30 seconds when | trying to open files. The recent exchange is shown below: What the delay in the log file ? Or a network trace? This could be printing related. cheers, jerry = Alleviating the pain of Windows(tm) --- http://www.samba.org GnuPG Key- http://www.plainjoe.org/gpg_public.asc "I never saved anything for the swim back." Ethan Hawk in Gattaca -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCOD4HIR7qMdg1EfYRAluTAKCmXdea18hbU9SNTgTCTAk6PEaZ4QCguqJ4 1In6k1T6TBB43NZ/Wb/KpzE= =UWoY -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Problems with MS Office (Excel/Word) & Samba 3.0.11, (moved to testing 3.0.12-RC1) attn Jerry
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 david rankin wrote: |I don't know if this is related, but I am still having | fits in Office 2003 with the file open dialog hanging for 30 | seconds when trying to open files. The recent exchange is shown below: What the delay in the log file ? Or a network trace? This could be printing related. cheers, jerry = Alleviating the pain of Windows(tm) --- http://www.samba.org GnuPG Key- http://www.plainjoe.org/gpg_public.asc "I never saved anything for the swim back." Ethan Hawk in Gattaca -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCOD4HIR7qMdg1EfYRAluTAKCmXdea18hbU9SNTgTCTAk6PEaZ4QCguqJ4 1In6k1T6TBB43NZ/Wb/KpzE= =UWoY -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Problems with MS Office (Excel/Word) & Samba 3.0.11, (moved to testing 3.0.12-RC1) attn Jerry
Tried disabling/veto'ing oplocks, but to no avail, so we've opted to try 3.0.12-rc1 on one of the two servers; all is well at this point thus far (been running about 10mins), figured I'd drop the list a line; Just a note - we've been having huge problems with MS Excel and Word running on samba 3.0.11, moved over to 3.0.12-rc1, (even though this is a production environment). Please be exact on the version of MS-Office you're running with. I can't reproduce the problems with a MS-Office 2003 - if you're running an earlier version I'll need to go back a rev or so. Jeremy. Jeremy, I don't know if this is related, but I am still having fits in Office 2003 with the file open dialog hanging for 30 seconds when trying to open files. The recent exchange is shown below: From: "Linwei Cheng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hello, The issues I had before seems all disappeared after I rebooted my machine( Fedora3, kernel 2.6.10-1.770_FC3 ). I don't really understand what benefited the samba on rebooting... The information is, before this reboot, I updated the kernel from 2.6.10-1.760_FC3, and updated samba from 3.0.10 to 3.0.12pre1-1. I really doubt it's the client requirement of "GET FULL FS SIZE" caused the slowness. Before rebooting, I tried using smbclient on another linux machine to connect the shared folder on samba server, and found that when I use "ls" to list the directories, the directories can be returned immediately but it get stuck on display the "filesystem size" information at the bottom until timeout. I think it's the same issue for "mapping" a disk on windows machines, since the windows will try to grab "filesystem size" information on every operation as well. After rebooting, the "... block of size . blocks available" returned immediately and everything goes smoothly. linwei I am seeing the exact same problem and I can confirm that a reboot of Win XP helps the problem temporarily. (this is my laptop so it is restarted regularly) It seems something is getting cached or stuck somewhere after XP is up and running for a while that is causing the 30 second delay descending down the directory tree when using the "file-open" dialog from MS office applications. There is nothing on the MS lack of knowledge base and google hasn't been my friend on this issue. Do you have any other ideas that might help get this issue resolved?? -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Problems with MS Office (Excel/Word) & Samba 3.0.11, (moved to testing 3.0.12-RC1) attn Jerry
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 09:36:31AM -0500, Nathan Vidican wrote: > We are running with a little over 100GB of office data, and about 200GB misc > other data shared to approximately 50 users using samba across two servers > acting as PDC and BDC to Windows 2000 & XP Pro clients. Also using roaming > profiles and ldap backend inclusive of nss_ldap and pam_ldap for the unix > side - works well except for the more recent and horribly crippling MS > Office bug. > > Tried disabling/veto'ing oplocks, but to no avail, so we've opted to try > 3.0.12-rc1 on one of the two servers; all is well at this point thus far > (been running about 10mins), figured I'd drop the list a line; Just a note - > we've been having huge problems with MS Excel and Word running on samba > 3.0.11, moved over to 3.0.12-rc1, (even though this is a production > environment). Please be exact on the version of MS-Office you're running with. I can't reproduce the problems with a MS-Office 2003 - if you're running an earlier version I'll need to go back a rev or so. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Problems with MS Office (Excel/Word) & Samba 3.0.11, (moved to testing 3.0.12-RC1) attn Jerry
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nathan Vidican wrote: | We are running with a little over 100GB of office data, | and about 200GB misc other data shared to approximately 50 | users using samba across two servers acting as PDC and BDC | to Windows 2000 & XP Pro clients. Also using roaming profiles | and ldap backend inclusive of nss_ldap and pam_ldap for the unix | side - works well except for the more recent and horribly | crippling MS Office bug. | | Tried disabling/veto'ing oplocks, but to no avail, so we've | opted to try 3.0.12-rc1 on one of the two servers; all is | well at this point thus far (been running about 10mins), | figured I'd drop the list a line; Just a note - we've been | having huge problems with MS Excel and Word running on samba | 3.0.11, moved over to 3.0.12-rc1, (even though this is | a production environment). | | ... Will advise and let you know if the problems persist, or | if we find any new ones. Thanks for the feedback, Nathan. cheers, jerry = Alleviating the pain of Windows(tm) --- http://www.samba.org GnuPG Key- http://www.plainjoe.org/gpg_public.asc "I never saved anything for the swim back." Ethan Hawk in Gattaca -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCNvoqIR7qMdg1EfYRAt1NAJ42v4VpTsC9TCZFfn2MliPNMqK77QCfYGFT jIQRE/jqO/BwAYcLIjC2Kfg= =4+Zy -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba