I work at an advice agency and we use an e-smith 5.12 server for email, data storage and to serve our information system to various Win 98 machines. The problem is with the large PDF files we have in our Information System ( some up to 87MB !!!!!!!!). IE 5.5 and Acrobat reader 5 just choke on them and they take an eternity (SEVERAL MINUTES!!!!) to come over the network even for machines with a direct 100Mb/s full duplex connection to the same switch as the e-smith is connected to.
It seems to be just PDF files which have this problem. The network and server are running very fast with any other types of files.
I have seen the thread from last June (
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=1916.msg6392#msg6392) and wonder if there have been any more thoughts on this.
I don't really want to disable browser integration for Adobe Acrobat as the ordinary advisers will not understand a dialogue to "open from this location" or "download".The info system is mainly web pages with links to the pdfs for some info which is created from scans of official documents. ( I know these could be optimised but we have o work with what is sent from our central organisation on a monthly basis).
Does the alteration to http.conf work for the SME 5.12 version? Is this a particular problem with Apache or the Samba file system? Would upgrading to Samba 2.2.3a help?
Any new thoughts welcome
Tony
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