XP Blues!

[no]

Okay, for a while I was really happy with Excel 2002 (Office XP), recently
IT people installed a patch. Now it has become a nightmare.

It takes forever to open pdf, powerpoint, excel files. We have NTS (Windows 2000) server. It people claim there are some incompatibilities
in Samba (?) But I have all software that I use on my PC.
Recently, I found a partial solution, that is not to log on to the server (so
I can't use Z driver). It works okay but same problem sometime.
Two thing that works are Xwindows and Citrix client (so I could log on
to NTS).


Anybody had similar problems?

[Cho Da]

http://redhat.com
http://slackware.com
http://freebsd.org

http://openoffice.org

http://xfree.org

http://www.fsf.org/

http://www.cio.com/archive/010102/shop_content.html

[Obi-Wan Kenobi]

http://open-beos.sourceforge.net/news.php

[glenn]

http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/connect/csamba6.html
http://asia.cnet.com/itmanager/netadmin/0,39006400,39069001,00.htm
http://www.planetnexiz.com/phpbb/forum/viewtopic.php?t=29&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15&sid=fb2b42d27e5afb262d99115ee26650b2

Samba is a program that lets your network drive talk to your PC. Sounds like it's misconfigured, probably the log in isn't going well thus stalling things.

But it's not an incompatibility, it's a misconfiguration. While it's possible that it's a Samba problem, my bull$%& meter is reading pretty strong that your IT folks haven't properly configured your machine or their samba server.

[no]

my bull$%& meter is reading pretty strong that your IT folks haven't properly configured your machine or their samba server.

Thanks, that is exactly what I think.

Thanks to everybody who posted. I am not sure I would want to migrate to Linux immediately, perhaps once I complete my Excel VBA project.