I'm using a Linux box which is serving several Windows 95 PC's as
file and volume sharing with Samba 1.9.17p4.
One of the disks that are mounted on the linux box is a Fujitsu 2513
MO-drive. To allow users to be able to change disks in the drive
without logging to the server, I've used the root preexec, postexec
and the dead time options as below:
[global]
...
dead time = 3
[MO]
path=/mo
guest ok=no
read only=no
root preexec=mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mo
root postexec= umount /mo
...
This seems to work, and every PC sharing the drive is able to read
and write to it; but, when trying to copy several files which are
quite big (about 2-5Mb each) Windows starts to do copying but after a
while it stops with the message "Windows cannot copy file <fff>:
volume is no more available" or something like that.
After this error, by running smbstatus on the linux box, I found that
the MO drive is not mounted but the file being copied just before the
error message is still open (and locked) by Samba.
I have tried to add "sync always = yes" to the [MO] section but
without success. I've also try to increase the dead
time option, but the problem doesn't change. I don't want to remove
the dead time because after that it would impossible to swap
cartridges without logging to the linux box - I don't like this very
much...
I tried to copy the same files to the linux hard disk and then move
them manually to the MO drive - this works fine, so I think Linux
and the MO drive itself are working well.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
marchino