[ubuntu-uk] saving 2mb file to Windows network is sloooowww!

[Simon Greenwood]

On 25 September 2010 15:03, Ronnie Tucker <ronnie at ronnietucker.co.uk> wrote:

> I've hooked up my little EEE 701 PC (with Linux Mint 9) to a Windows
> 2000 (server) network so that I can use OOo, but when I ask OOo to save
> a (measly 2mb) spreadsheet to the Windows 2000 server it takes about
> five minutes (honestly!) to save the file. If I save directly to the EEE
> it saves in no time.
>
> I'm using a vanilla install of Mint 9, haven't changed any settings on
> the EEE.
>
> Is there anything I can do on the EEE to speed things up?
>
> Any advice is much appreciated
> (all be it that I can't do anything with it now until Tuesday, holiday
> Monday FTW!)
>
>
My experience with OpenOffice over Windows networking has never been good
and I tend to end up saving the file locally and copying it to the server
for storage. Things might improve if you do configure Windows sharing
properly on the Eee - try setting up authentication against the Windows
domain and adding 'wins' to the hosts option in /etc/nsswitch.conf. Windows
2000 doesn't seem to be wholly compatible with samba though - it seems to
require encrypted passwords on the Linux side for one.

s/



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