samba - Nov 1998 - no updates seen on PC after unix changed (v2.0 alpha)

Hi,
 I just installed Version 2.0.0-prealpha on a Solaris 2.5.1 machine.
We are exporting one filesystem to the PC's. I can connect from
my Win95 PC without a problem and I see all the files on the shared
drive. If I bring up Windows explore and double click on a text
file I can see the file without a problem. I then close the file
and go to the unix box and change the text file. If I then double
click on the PC side again it shows me the old file, not what
has been changed on the unix side. I have looked through all the
documentation and can't see anything parameter that might be 
causing this problem. If anyone know what I can do to fix it please
let me know. Thanks in advance,

David.

David Reiter  dreiter@logicon.com
Logicon Information Technology Group 
404 Camino Del Rio South #500
San Diego, California  92108-3503
619-610-8800 x 5260

See the "oplocks" option in the smb.conf man page. It allows
clients to "aggressively cache files locally", hence your
client is not seeing the updated file, just the locally cached
one.

Set "oplocks = false" in your smb.conf for the share where it's a 
problem. Remember, there will be a performance penalty, so only
apply it to shares where its a problem, avoid setting it globally.

Peter Debus
Computer Systems Administrator
School of Mathematical Computer Sciences
University of New England
Armidale NSW 
Australia

Ph: 61 (0)267 73 2412 Fax: 61 (0)267 73 3312
> 
> Hi,
>  I just installed Version 2.0.0-prealpha on a Solaris 2.5.1 machine.
> We are exporting one filesystem to the PC's. I can connect from
> my Win95 PC without a problem and I see all the files on the shared
> drive. If I bring up Windows explore and double click on a text
> file I can see the file without a problem. I then close the file
> and go to the unix box and change the text file. If I then double
> click on the PC side again it shows me the old file, not what
> has been changed on the unix side. I have looked through all the
> documentation and can't see anything parameter that might be 
> causing this problem. If anyone know what I can do to fix it please
> let me know. Thanks in advance,
> 
> David.
> 
> David Reiter  dreiter@logicon.com
> Logicon Information Technology Group 
> 404 Camino Del Rio South #500
> San Diego, California  92108-3503
> 619-610-8800 x 5260
> 
>

Greetings All,
 I am trying to get the PC to not cache files and have not had
any luck. I am running version 2.0 and have tried setting
oplocks = no but still the PC will load the old file for about
a minute. After that the PC will load the new one. What I need is
for the PC to immediately see the new file. Does anybody know
the other parameters to set to disable the cache? What should share
mode and the other locking values be set at? Does anybody have this
working where there is no cache? If you could send me your
configuration file that would be great. Thanks in advance,

David.

David Reiter  dreiter@logicon.com
Logicon Information Technology Group 
404 Camino Del Rio South #500
San Diego, California  92108-3503
619-610-8800 x 5260