Re: Win98 and Samba

[Bruce Smith <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > What do you mean by "loading files from the server"? <
> 
> Ok, here's the scoop....
> 
> Let me give you a "fer instance". I have a lot of scanned images I store on
> the server (JPEG, BMP etc.). In Windows 95 I could see the files in Windows
> Explorer, click on it and Microsoft Photo Editor would launch and load the
> file. If I try this on my Win98 machine, 3 out of 5 files will not load,
> instead (after hanging for a minute or so) an error is returned stating
> Error loading file: file of unknown type. Another example. At random times
> if I try to copy a file from the server to my Win98 machine, It will freeze
> until the operation times out, and I'm left with a 0 byte file on my hard
> drive. Off hand I don't remember what the error message returned is.
> 
> As I stated before, my Win95 and WFW311 PC's do not have these problems.

I may not be much help since I've never seen a problem exactly like 
that.  The few Win98 machines we have here seem to run okay with Samba.

I did see one other strange problem with large files that took awhile
to figure out.  Programs slowed down to a crawl, and it only happened
on one brand of PC and not on other PC brands.  All PC's were running
Win95 at the time, and it took us weeks to figure out what was causing
it.  The problem turned out to be in the virus protection software that
came preinstalled on the PC's.  One PC manufacturer (the slow one) had 
the virus protection set to scan ALL files, and the others had it set 
to only scan executable files.  After switching the slow PC's to only
scan executables, the problem went away.

I don't know if that has anything to do with your problem, but it might
be worth a look.  (FWIW)

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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