file system cache...need to flush/sync?

[Headmaster]

Hi,
We are using SuSE PRO 8.1 and Samba 2.2.5. Have something very strange happening.

We copy data from our remote office to this office. It get's copied to our Samba server. When it gets here, our accountant has to run some reports so that he can 'pay the bills.'

He will log in to our software (custom software, runs on XP PRO), and run the report 2 or 3 times, and the reports will appear to be running off of the data from the previous day. Then all of the sudden, the report will run with the new data. It's like the data is getting cached but not written to the server until he finally 'shakes it loose'.

I've done a little bit of research and saw something about bdflush. Is that something I need to run(or something newer). Has anyone had this problem before? If somebody could shed some light on this, I'd be happy. Kind of creates a headache for me everyday!

TIA,
Scottm

Here's my config. The server is configured to as a PDC, but we are still just running peer-to-peer:

[global]
	workgroup = DIVERSIFIEDTECH
	netbios name = DIVERSIFIEDSERV
	encrypt passwords = Yes
	socket options = SO_KEEPALIVE IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY
	printcap name = CUPS
	character set = ISO8859-15
	os level = 64
	preferred master = True
	domain master = True
	dns proxy = No
	wins support = Yes
	create mask = 0775
	force create mode = 0775
	force security mode = 0775
	directory mask = 0775
	force directory mode = 0775
	force directory security mode = 0775
	force unknown acl user = 0775
	printing = cups
	veto files = /*.nws/riched20.dll/*.{*}/

[scottm]
	comment = Scott's home
	path = /home/scottm
	read only = No
	guest ok = Yes

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