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In article <3lk23t$qdc@alterdial.UU.NET>, Robert Shingledecker 
|> The biggest problem still facing us, is when Microsoft Word 6 and
|> Excel 5 came upon the scene.  Before those versions eveything was 
|> great.  With the new versions of Word & Excel saving LARGE files
|> on a Samba drive will either corrupt the file (WORD) or not be able
|> to retrieve the file (Excel).  These problems do not happen with
|> other servers (DG/UX or Linux).  I have seen other posts the same
|> problems with SCO.  I have also received much mail from other users
|> with the same expericences.
|> 
|> If anyone knows the fix PLEASE share.
|> 


I am told (and will find out on Friday) that UOD385A fixes this (get it from
ftp.sco.com in the SLS directory). This is similar to a recent locking-related
problem with most (all?) DOS/Windows NFS products. The latter was fixed for
PCNFS with a patch from SUnSoft, others I don't know.

In general it seems that Excel (and Word to a lesser extent) uses locking and
chsize in such a fashion that samba (and lanman) and the nfsd's don't work
properly