Slow access to Office files on a Linux server...

Just a quick question for you all. Recently upgraded a user to Windows 7 and Office 2010. Now whenever she tries to access a Word or Excel file from our Linux server it is extremely slow, and even slower for saving.

I thought it might be Offices "File Validation", but I can't find any sign of it being installed in programs, updates, or the registry.

Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers, Whiteout.

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demonfurbie

how is the speed on other file types

even try saving a word doc as rtf on the server to check the speed, also try the same rtf in wordpad

undomiel

Are other Windows 7 machines fine? If this is your first one on the network I would recommend first trying to disable SMB2 and see if that affects things.

Whiteout

Hmm, yeah tried that. Other file types work fine: PDF, txt, etc...

Whiteout

undomiel wrote: »

Are other Windows 7 machines fine? If this is your first one on the network I would recommend first trying to disable SMB2 and see if that affects things.

Nope not the first one on our network. I will try that. Thanks!

EDIT: Disabled SMB and no go.

jdancer

Try adding the following in your smb.conf file:

max protocol = SMB2
socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY
strict allocate = yes

Your mileage may vary.

Whiteout

jdancer wrote: »

Try adding the following in your smb.conf file:

max protocol = SMB2
socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY
strict allocate = yes

Your mileage may vary.

Thanks jdancer, I will give it a shot.