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kaared@hiMolde.no (Kare Digernes) wrote:
>
> 
> I am very interested in hearing other peoples experiences
> with Samba and SCO Unix. I will be setting up a SCO Unix
> server which need to share it resources (files and printers)
> to Windows, or Windows for Workgroups, clients running TCP/IP.
> Any comments, experiences, warnings, etc, are very welcome.
> Please post or mail. Thank you in advance.
> 
> -Kaare
> kaared@himolde.no

We are running two Samba networks.  One is 80 PC/Wfw to a SCO based
Compaq Proliant with 10 networked HP Laser printers with JetDirect
cards.  The other network is 24 PC/Wfw, 3 HP Lasers, served from a
Compaq Prosigna.

First challenge:
Using Wfw marrys the user to the machine.  Password were stored local
on the PC.  We had to create a setup where each user could logon to
any machine or multiple users could logon to a single machine.

What we did was to bypass the Wfw logon screen and write our own
logon program that then issued "net use" commands.  That worked well
for us.

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.

Robert Shingledecker                 roberts@deltanet.com