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Old 07-14-2004, 04:20 AM   #1
Adam_equip
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Samba File share locking problem


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.
 
Old 07-14-2004, 08:42 AM   #2
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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:

Code:
log file = /var/log/samba/samba.log
log level = 3
which should produce a lot of logging to the file. If this is still not enough, increase the value!
 
Old 07-14-2004, 09:09 AM   #3
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locks on a db

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?
 
Old 07-14-2004, 09:14 AM   #4
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oplocks

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


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