Having replaced my old NT4 server at home (after it's boot disk died) with Samba running or SuSE 8.0 I've had 3 instances of files becoming corrupted when saved from my wife's Windows 2000 PC. What happens is that text documents appear to have random, but meaningful text appearing at random in the document. It looks maybe like Samba has picked this text up from somewhere else on the server's disk. The first time this happened I was running Samba 2.2.3 as supplied on the SuSE disks. I have since upgraded to 2.2.4 and this has happened twice since. SuSE is patched with the latest patches using Yast2. I connect to the server using smbmount from my SuSE PC and I've noticed no corruption neither have the kids from their PCs running Windows 2000. As my wife is more of a power-user than the rest of us, that could explain why the rest of us haven't experienced the corruption. Just to be sure I have re-built my Wife's PC including service packs and patches, but the problem has re-appeared since then. The Samba shares are located on a separate Reiser partition on my server, which is a dual PIII 450 on a Gigabit motherboard. Any thoughts / suggestions would be very welcome as i'm getting a lot of grief from my wife. TIA David Bottrill
On Thursday 27 June 2002 20.08, David Bottrill wrote:
Having replaced my old NT4 server at home (after it's boot disk died) with Samba running or SuSE 8.0 I've had 3 instances of files becoming corrupted when saved from my wife's Windows 2000 PC. What happens is that text documents appear to have random, but meaningful text appearing at random in the document. It looks maybe like Samba has picked this text up from somewhere else on the server's disk.
Just a thought, but could it possibly be that the docs were saved with MS Office and later opened with OpenOffice?! MS Office "file formats" are little more than dumps to disk of what happen to be in memory at the time you were editing the doc, and at times OpenOffice gets some of the doc wrong. //Anders -- `When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, `it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.'
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