samba - Jul 1997 - MS-Access problems with samba-1.9.16p9

I've been using samba for a few years, and samba-1.9.16p9 since it was 
released with no problems, on a network of about 10 pc's.

Recently I have started to use MS-Access 2.0. I have created a workgroup, 
with the mda file on the samba drive.

Now when I attempt to copy a paste a Report1 to Report2, it tells me that
I 'markk' on 'mymachine' has 'it' locked. Most other
operations work
fine, except these pastes.

I have options set for 'shared' and 'lock on edit'.

Interestingly, when I copy to mda file locally for a moment, I can then 
perform the paste. Also, if several PC's open the database, only the 
first user to open the files is shown in smbstatus's output.

Is this a problem with samba? If so is it fixed? If so, which version 
should I upgrade to? I am looking for a reasonably stable release, but 
have not been monitoring the list that carefully recently.

System is: Sun4m, SunOS 4.1.4.

Any assistance greatfully received.

Regards,
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| Mark A R Knight     | Email : markk@dgscm.demon.co.uk    [194.222.14.112]  |
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On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Mark Knight wrote:
> I've been using samba for a few years, and samba-1.9.16p9 since it was 
> released with no problems, on a network of about 10 pc's.
> 
> Recently I have started to use MS-Access 2.0. I have created a workgroup, 
> with the mda file on the samba drive.
> 
> Now when I attempt to copy a paste a Report1 to Report2, it tells me that
> I 'markk' on 'mymachine' has 'it' locked. Most
other operations work
> fine, except these pastes.
> 
> Is this a problem with samba?
yes.  locking doesn't work properly.  it's horrible code.
> If so is it fixed?
yes.
> If so, which version 
> should I upgrade to?
1.9.17alpha series.
> I am looking for a reasonably stable release,
in that case, wait for 1.9.17p1.
> but 
> have not been monitoring the list that carefully recently.
tsk tsk :-)
 

luke