samba - Apr 2005 - Only one person can use a file at a time problem

Hello all,

Migrated a Windows 2000 server to Debian Sarge with Samba (3.0.10).  Works
nicely.  But apparently there's a Microsoft Access database on this
specific server that people have been using - apparently one of them add
in information in the database, while the rest access the same database to
read it only - apparently people can do that on the old server - i.e. one
person opens it, the rest can open a "read only" copy of it fine.

But now that Samba is serving up the file, only one person can open the
database at a time - the rest gets an "Unable to lock file" error
message
- I assume this is because Samba only allows one person to use the file at
a time and blocks other people to open the database as read only - how to
allow Samba to give access to this specific file but read only?

Thanks very much for your help in advance!

Cheers - Piers

Problem fixed - sorry for bothering you all!  Thanks to those who helped.

For reference: solution was to set "create mode = 0777" - an important
setting considering it's a public drive!  Doh.

Cheers - Piers

piersk@bda.org.uk schrieb:
>Hello all,
>
>Migrated a Windows 2000 server to Debian Sarge with Samba (3.0.10).  Works
>nicely.  But apparently there's a Microsoft Access database on this
>specific server that people have been using - apparently one of them add
>in information in the database, while the rest access the same database to
>read it only - apparently people can do that on the old server - i.e. one
>person opens it, the rest can open a "read only" copy of it fine.
>
>But now that Samba is serving up the file, only one person can open the
>database at a time - the rest gets an "Unable to lock file" error
message
>- I assume this is because Samba only allows one person to use the file at
>a time and blocks other people to open the database as read only - how to
>allow Samba to give access to this specific file but read only?
>
>Thanks very much for your help in advance!
>
>Cheers - Piers
>
>  
>
hi ,
as far i remember there is something written about it in the samba faqs
Regards