[ale] question about SAMBA and a windows program called ACT

[ALE at MaestroIT.com (Alan Dobkin)]

--On Friday, September 03, 2004 8:24 AM -0400 Van Loggins 
<vloggins at turbocorp.com> wrote:

> Their workstations are running Windows XP Home edition (yuckie!!!)

One other thing I forgot to mention:  When running Windows XP (Home
or Pro) with a Samba share in general (not specific to ACT or other
databases), you may have to disable the "Web Client" service on each
XP machine in order to get a decent response time connecting to the
server.  Otherwise, the XP machines will try to establish a WebDAV
(HTTP) connection to the server first, which may take 10-30 seconds
to time out before the users can access the share.

Alan