samba - Aug 2005 - Locking problems on a Windows server with samba OSX clients

Hello,

I have a small amount of Mac OS X 10.3 workstations networked on a Windows 2000
server. The samba version on the Macs is 3.0.10.

For each file stored on the Windows server, the Macs create a file beginning
with "._" which contains some resources about the file. My problem is
that, just by browsing onto directories, the Macs seem to be locking all those
"._" files (and not the regular file unless we open them), and this
prevents moving the regular files, as well as renaming, saving etc.
The only way to unlock the files is to get the Mac unmount the share.

Mac OS X 10.2 workstations (samba 2.2) do create the same files, but do not lock
them. I'm looking after 10.4 to see if there is a similar behaviour or not.

My question: is there a locking option I can switch on the samba clients ?

Thanks a lot for any help !


Guillaume

Guillaume Laur?s schrieb:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a small amount of Mac OS X 10.3 workstations networked on a Windows
2000 server. The samba version on the Macs is 3.0.10.
> 
> For each file stored on the Windows server, the Macs create a file
beginning with "._" which contains some resources about the file. My
problem is that, just by browsing onto directories, the Macs seem to be locking
all those "._" files (and not the regular file unless we open them),
and this prevents moving the regular files, as well as renaming, saving etc.
> The only way to unlock the files is to get the Mac unmount the share.
> 
> Mac OS X 10.2 workstations (samba 2.2) do create the same files, but do not
lock them. I'm looking after 10.4 to see if there is a similar behaviour or
not.
> 
> My question: is there a locking option I can switch on the samba clients ?
> 
> Thanks a lot for any help !
> 
> 
> Guillaume
> 
Hi Guillaume,

we're using Mac OS X 10.3 and 10.4 as SMB-Clients and we have been very 
disappointed with this hidden files (e.g. .DS_Store). I have fount this 
hint http://tinyurl.com/d6z9c at the site Mac OS X hints, which prevents 
Mac OS X Clients from writing their special hidden files to network 
shares. Maybe it is worth a look for You.

Ciao,

Martin Petersen

Thanks for your input. Unfortunately it does not solve the problem, which really
is that "._*" files get locked until client disconnects, without
reason and blocking the other clients.

Still searching...

Guillaume 

-----Message d'origine-----
De?: Martin Petersen [mailto:martin.petersen@picturepuzzlemedien.de] 
Envoy??: lundi 29 ao?t 2005 13:52
??: Guillaume Laur?s
Cc?: samba@lists.samba.org
Objet?: Re: [Samba] Locking problems on a Windows server with samba OSX clients

Guillaume Laur?s schrieb:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a small amount of Mac OS X 10.3 workstations networked on a Windows
2000 server. The samba version on the Macs is 3.0.10.
> 
> For each file stored on the Windows server, the Macs create a file
beginning with "._" which contains some resources about the file. My
problem is that, just by browsing onto directories, the Macs seem to be locking
all those "._" files (and not the regular file unless we open them),
and this prevents moving the regular files, as well as renaming, saving etc.
> The only way to unlock the files is to get the Mac unmount the share.
> 
> Mac OS X 10.2 workstations (samba 2.2) do create the same files, but do not
lock them. I'm looking after 10.4 to see if there is a similar behaviour or
not.
> 
> My question: is there a locking option I can switch on the samba clients ?
> 
> Thanks a lot for any help !
> 
> 
> Guillaume
> 
Hi Guillaume,

we're using Mac OS X 10.3 and 10.4 as SMB-Clients and we have been very 
disappointed with this hidden files (e.g. .DS_Store). I have fount this 
hint http://tinyurl.com/d6z9c at the site Mac OS X hints, which prevents 
Mac OS X Clients from writing their special hidden files to network 
shares. Maybe it is worth a look for You.

Ciao,

Martin Petersen

Hi,

Thanks for this url, but I already digged all the macwindows.com before posting
;-)

According to various reports on this issue, I can understand that it is
reproducible with OS X 10.3 as a client (thus samba 3), and windows 2000, 2003
or samba 2.2 as a server (moving from 2.2 to 3.0 on the server fix the issue,
unfortunately I don't use samba but a widows server...)
As I said earlier, we tested 0S X 10.2 (samba 2.2) as a client and the issue
doesn't appear.
Strangely enough, with OS X 10.4 neither, even though it is based on the very
same samba version than 10.3 (3.0.10).

-----Message d'origine-----
O.k., then I have another URL for You. Search on macwindows.com for a 
solution, they have a special Mac-Win2k section at 
http://macwindows.com/Win2000.html

good luck.

Martin