When the world was young, Klaus Kappel carved some runes like this:
> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 12:05:08 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Klaus Kappel <kkappel@sha2000.de>
> To: samba@samba.anu.edu.au
> Subject: Locking with M$-Access 97
> This is a REAL problem on the way to world domination ;-)
> since we moved a MS-Access MDB (16 Meg) to samba,
> it ist killing queries more than twice a day, loosing records, ...
> It seems the application has no chance to recognice locked records and
> inform the user. with smbstatus I get one locking entry for the first user
> accessing the database (like: DENY_NONE RDWR), the second is not in the
> locking list. Is this behaviour normal?
[snip]
> Has anyone out there experience in debugging this locking case, testify
> the use of "fake oplocks", optimizing access databases running
samba
> servers?
I'd go ahead and upgrade to the latest version (1.9.18p8 I think),
as it has real oplock support. Try it and report the results.
1.9.18p9 will have even more stuff in it (that may or may not be of
benefit to you) - see digest 1761. Hope this helps.
Regards, Steve Arnold
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