I'm hoping to migrate from novell to samba purley for file sharing.

The server is a 3ghz amp athlon running on a raid 10 arrarry with 2gb of ram.

Installed is SUSE 9.0 (9.1 was not availiable when we started this project) with samba 2.2 sharing of a reiserfs partition. I also have acl support enabled.

My problem is this

If i open an ms access database on on machine a can read and write to it but if another user opens it on another machine i get an error. i have been using multiuser ms access applications for years on various types of server an not had this problem.

I have tried oplocks = no and veto oplock files =\*.mdb\ in my smb.conf but still no good.

any help very much appreciated.

Are you sure that the problem is within SAMBA and not within you Windows Clients?

Perhaps debugging output of samba could help by using the following parameters in smb.conf:

which should produce a lot of logging to the file. If this is still not enough, increase the value!

I remember reading that you should never use locking with any database file. Maybe you should specify no locking for that share. I am not sure what the actual option is "oplocks = no" maybe?

I think the proper way would be to disable oplocks for certain types of files globally. "veto oplock files = *.db *.xls *.etc"