AutoCad 2004 1

[160473]

I have just migrated from Novell NetWare 5 to Samba 3.
Now it seems that everytime a user opens AutoCad 2004 or opens a drawing, local or on server the server processor goes to 100%. Opening a drawing takes up to 3min (with novell 3sec!!!). Everything else is working ok, even opening large Access DB:s. All search paths are just like they where on the Novell server.

I have searched the net for a solution but found null.
The people using Autocad is going mad.

 

[lgarner]

You might want to monitor the traffic generated by AutoCad. Opening a file locally should be unaffected by the type of server.

 

[160473]

So is not the case. Our Autocad uses thirdparty software located on server share. One thing that I tested was to set up a second server acting as slaveserver with "security = server" and "password server = PDC".
Then I remapped the share to the slave server instead -> Autocad runs like a rocket. The problem is that I need to save all drawings on the main server to get som sort of security (RAID-5). The slave server is only an old workstation.
When we used an old HP E60 with only 64MB ram and Novell NetWare 5 everything worked fine.

 

[160473]

Problem solved!!!
I was using "hide unreadable = yes" and "hide files = /Thumbs.db/" in smb.conf, not a good idea.
Now AutoCad runs like a canonball again!!!