On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 09:59 -0500, Matt Morgan wrote:
On 1/27/06, Greg Swallow - SkyNet gregswallow@skynetonline.ca wrote:
Matt Morgan wrote:
Despite Craig's excellent help with my Excel/Samba, I continue to have trouble with Samba 3.0.10 under CentOS 4.2. Quickbooks, now, too, is just acting really weird.
Did you check bugzilla.redhat.com for a bug report similar to the problem you're having? If you don't find one you should report a bug there first, before looking for other solutions.
Yes, there's a bug there for the Excel issue. I haven't done a ton of testing to see if this other QuickBooks problem is the same thing, or if there's another separate bugzilla bug, but it does look like a well-known issue in 3.0.10, not specific to RH/CentOS. They appear to be bugs fixed in more recent Samba releases.
---- There doesn't seem to be much complaining about this on upstream bugzilla.
I definitely use samba at a number of clients and haven't run into this and one of my clients - they all use Office XP/2003 - I don't think they are heavy Excel users but I have used Excel 2003 in that office myself and not run into the issue. That particular client is using CentOS-4.2 on the samba server.
Many of my clients also run Quickbooks - even in multi-user mode off a samba share and other than complaints about speed, I haven't had any issues there either.
FWIW
Craig