Would there be any conditions under which this setting (default to yes) could
cause an AIX 4.3.2 machine (samba 2.0.6) to suddenly have all processes (smbd or
otherwise) become blocked?
I've sent 5 dumps to IBM and they're stumped and this is the only thing
I can
possibly find from the samba stuff that could possibly cause it.
Here is the exerpt from smb.conf:
ole locking compatibility (G)
This parameter allows an administrator to turn off the
byte range lock manipulation that is done within Samba
to give compatibility for OLE applications. Windows OLE
applications use byte range locking as a form of
inter-process communication, by locking ranges of bytes
around the 2^32 region of a file range. This can cause
certain UNIX lock managers to crash or otherwise cause
problems. Setting this parameter to "no" means you
trust your UNIX lock manager to handle such cases
correctly.
Default: ole locking compatibility = yes
Example: ole locking compatibility = no
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Bill
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Could anyone explain a little bit more on ole locking compatibility? I have checked man 5 smb.conf. And can only get little information. In general it is not recommended to change the default which is "yes". Since this is a global parameter could I specify to only a certain type of files or certain directory? I have slow response with multi user access to a data file. So if I would only want to turn it off to only this type of data file. David Kwok -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed
Hi! Unfortunately I have detected that the parameter ole locking compatibility is not switched on in an argument list in /source/param/param.c It is the parameter works in Samba-2.0.7 and it to me is very necessary, as without him the bookkeeping program which does not work will be used at our office. Has tried to include the code ole locking compatibility in 2.2.0alpha2 from 2.0.7, but it has failed. Whether tell this parameter in the future versions will be switched on? Also what it for the parameter posix locking? Yours faithfully, Sergey -- Registered Linux User #186627 ICQ UIN 50715669