RG> No fucking way. Probably that Brenton fella.. maybe even DD,
RG> but definetly not me.

DD> It might have been me that recommended it (SAMBA) for this
DD> application. I don't recall ever saying that it was "fabulous",
DD> but it certainly suits the purpose. It occurs to me that I have
DD> copied 2 gig files from Windows to a SAMBA share without any
DD> problems. 

 That's the weird part - so have I! I backed up the Win98 drive
(formatted FAT32) using Samba with no problem at all. I can delete,
copy, move, drag-and-drop, I can even *open* Winword.exe using Samba,
but for some reason beyond me, I can't save ordinary text files in
Word 2000 (Word7 or Word6) format. Even if I create it, I can't save
it to the Samba FAT drive... but I can use Word2000 to save in WfW
format (Word5 format), no problem.

 I've isolated the problem to Word6/7 format... not actually Word
200 itself. What is it about the Word6/7 format that makes Samba barf?

 The only other problem I find with Samba, is that if I shut down the
Linux box with Samba still running, it locks the Win98 network. Samba
protects itself against the Windows box failing, but apparently it
does not issue a warning when *it* closes down... and of course
Windows sucks anyway.

 So far as I am concerned (the Word7 format thing apart), Samba *is*
fabulous. It's a bastard to set up (too many variables poorly
explained), but I'm actually running Windows programs stored on the
Linux box! It gets really confusing... but it works!  

Regards,
Bob
  

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