Folks,
Thanks to Ricardo Stella and "Chris" for quick assistance, I had sent
about 15
help requests to listproc and given up, seeing no sign of a samba-digest list
which is what my majordomo training has taught me. What a strange default
setting . . .
So onto my question about Samba. I've installed the latest RPM from the
samba
FTP site (samba-2.0.6-19991110) on a RedHat Linux 6.1 box, kernel 2.2.13ac2.
Problem is, I can't make it work :-( Now, I've been managing nearly out
of the
box samba installs for several years, and it's almost always "done the
right
thing". Either Samba's getting cleverer, or I'm getting dumber, or
both, cuz
I'm stuck.
Essentially I have a bunch of MSOffice users mounting a Samba share and
dumping their dox there. Not exactly rocket science. Presently I have it
exported as:
[wibble]
comment = Wibble user common data area
path = /home/wibble/common
public = no
writeable = yes
create mode = 0770
directory mode = 0770
preserve case = yes
short preserve case = yes
case sensitive = no
level2 oplocks = True
valid users = someone,anotherone,andanother
The symptoms of the problem are as follows: thoughout the day these people are
opening and closing excel and word documents, usually without incident.
Occasionally however, one of them will be unable to save a file they have
saved many times previously that afternoon. Windows tells them it's
"unable to
rename the document".
Samba logs:
[2000/03/22 15:00:30, 3] smbd/reply.c:reply_mv(3727)
reply_mv : \MONICAS EXCELDOC\GATEWAY\EC357000 -> \MONICAS
EXCELDOC\GATEWAY\gtepub98.xlw
[2000/03/22 15:00:30, 3] lib/util.c:unix_clean_name(608)
unix_clean_name [/MONICAS EXCELDOC/GATEWAY/EC357000]
[2000/03/22 15:00:30, 3] lib/util.c:unix_clean_name(608)
unix_clean_name [/MONICAS EXCELDOC/GATEWAY/gtepub98.xlw]
[2000/03/22 15:00:30, 3] smbd/reply.c:rename_internals(3586)
rename_internals: case_sensitive = 0, case_preserve = 1, short case preserve =
1, directory
= monicas exceldoc/gateway/EC357000, newname = monicas
exceldoc/gateway/gtepub98.xlw, newnam
e_last_component = gtepub98.xlw, is_8_3 = 1
[2000/03/22 15:00:30, 3] smbd/reply.c:rename_internals(3641)
rename_internals: failed doing rename on monicas exceldoc/gateway/EC357000
-> monicas excel
doc/gateway/gtepub98.xlw
[2000/03/22 15:00:30, 3] smbd/error.c:error_packet(138)
error packet at line 3701 cmd=7 (SMBmv) eclass=1 ecode=183
Does this ring a bell with anyone? Is it relevant that this shared volume is
not local to the samba server but rather mounted over a 100BaseT NFS backbone?
(using knfsd and nfslock as implemented in kernel 2.2.13ac2 and redhat-6.1
userspace)?? I know I had a devil of a time until I got NFS locking up and
flying.
Thanks for any hints . . . I've tried almost ever combination of oplocks, no
oplocks, lev2 oplocks etc, with no apparent joy. It's to the point now that
my
users no longer trust the server, saving to their C drives instead.
Help? This used to work :-(
-Darren
