Samba problems with Window 2000

[Russell Campbell]

We have had problems using office products Word and Excel as well as Oracle Forms Developer running on W2K while accessing files located on HP-UX workstations via Samba. Some files open properly, others generate errors like this one from Word: 'The instruction at "0x300b9dbe" referenced memory at "0x00000000". The memory could not be "read".' This error occurred when attempting to open the file. When the same files are on an NT share, or local on the W2K PC, no errors occur.

[Rodney Hills]

You didn't say the version of samba you are running, but you must have the latest (2.0.7 I believe) for Win2000 stations to work.

[Russell Campbell]

Yes, We have Version 2.0.7. On 10.20 system.

[Bill Thorsteinson]

Have you applied service pack 2 for Windows 2000. It has caused a number of problems with samba 2.2.0.
Release of this service pack has placed version 2.2.1
on hold. Check the mailing lists archives at
http://www.samba.org.

[Insu Kim]

Did you check out file permission on hpux ?
sometimes, it can cause that kind of problem.