samba - Dec 1997 - 1.9.18alpha14 weirdness

Hello all,

I just saw something very weird with Samba 1.9.18alpha14.

I browsed the Network Neverhood to find a Samba server, then I opened it
to see the list of available shares and picked my home directory.

When the window with the contents of my home directory was open, I
typed "smbstatus" at the shell prompt of this server and I saw 4
locked files. I did not understand what happened because I hadn't run
or use any of those locked files.

All the locked files had .exe extensions and were the only files with
these extensions in my home directory.

I have been trying to reproduce this since then with no success.

I hope it is nothing but I'll keep my eyes open.

E.-

-- 

Eloy A. Paris
Information Technology Department
Rockwell Automation de Venezuela
Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9431645

OK, it happened again and now it is not my imagination. I typed
"\\servername\sharename" in Windows 95's Start:Run and then I ran
smbstatus. This is what I got:

zeus:/var/log$ smbstatus

Samba version 1.9.18alpha14
Service      uid      gid      pid     machine
----------------------------------------------
eparis       eparis   eparis    7599   canaima  (130.151.17.162) Fri
  Dec 26 14:40:48 1997
eparis       eparis   eparis    9023   chapu    (130.151.17.156) Fri
  Dec 26 16:29:33 1997

Locked files:
Pid    DenyMode   R/W        Oplock           Name
--------------------------------------------------
9023   DENY_NONE  RDONLY     EXCLUSIVE+BATCH  DSK3-1.EXE   Fri Dec 26
  16:29:34 1997
9023   DENY_NONE  RDONLY     EXCLUSIVE+BATCH  DSK3-2.EXE   Fri Dec 26
  16:29:34 1997
9023   DENY_NONE  RDONLY     EXCLUSIVE+BATCH  dj369en.exe   Fri Dec 26
  16:29:34 1997

Share mode memory usage (bytes):
   101976(99%) free + 320(0%) used + 104(0%) overhead = 102400(100%) total
zeus:/var/log$ ls -l ~eparis/*{exe,EXE}
-rw-r--r--   1 eparis   eparis     864723 Nov 10 22:24
/home/eparis/DSK3-1.EXE
-rw-r--r--   1 eparis   eparis     288142 Nov 10 22:24
/home/eparis/DSK3-2.EXE
-rw-r--r--   1 eparis   eparis    2076579 Jul  1 15:26
/home/eparis/dj369en.exe

You see? All the .exe and .EXE files in my home directory appear
locked and I was just browsing, nothing else. What's going on here?

(the connection with problems is the one with PID 9023).

E.-

Eloy A. Paris <eparis@ven.ra.rockwell.com> wrote:
: Hello all,
:
: I just saw something very weird with Samba 1.9.18alpha14.
:
: I browsed the Network Neverhood to find a Samba server, then I opened it
: to see the list of available shares and picked my home directory.
:
: When the window with the contents of my home directory was open, I
: typed "smbstatus" at the shell prompt of this server and I saw 4
: locked files. I did not understand what happened because I hadn't run
: or use any of those locked files.
:
: All the locked files had .exe extensions and were the only files with
: these extensions in my home directory.
:
: I have been trying to reproduce this since then with no success.
:
: I hope it is nothing but I'll keep my eyes open.
:
: E.-

-- 

Eloy A. Paris
Information Technology Department
Rockwell Automation de Venezuela
Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9431645

Eloy A. Paris wrote:
> You see? All the .exe and .EXE files in my home directory appear
> locked and I was just browsing, nothing else. What's going on here?
>
 
I suppose this has to do with win95 Explorer trying to find the Icon
inside de EXE file.

Patrick Vielle
Instituto de Astronomia 
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico