samba - Jul 2005 - Problems With MDB in Linux/Samba

I work for a company that has a program localy developed, and we were having 
a problem when we started storing the application on the samba shared drived 
mabye simular to what you are expereienceing.
in ur smb.conf (usuly in /etc/samba/smb.conf) make sure on the shared drive 
in samba the oplocks are set (example below)
 ... <insert more smb.conf here>
;================= Clinic ==========================[shared]
comment = Shared Drive Name
 path = /home/mysharedstuff
public = yes
printable = no
write list = @mygroup
oplocks = 0
level2 oplocks = 0
 ... <insert more smb.conf here>
 lines oplocks = 0 and level2 oplocks = 0 are the critical ones. This fixed 
the problems we were havign w/ the mdb might work for you :)
 I also was fiddeling around w/ my smb.conf and noticed that the buffer size 
was hidiously small, now if ur running a home pc w/ low resources that's 
fine but for a corperate machine might wanna up the buffer size to help out 
performance. it's set above like this:
;===================== Global ====================[global]
workgroup = ltm
comment = Welcome to LTM
server string = Samba Server
netbios name = swedish
log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
log level = 3
max log size = 50
security = user
socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPOS_LOWDELAY SO_RCVBUF=20480 SO_SNDBUF=20480
... <insert more smb.conf here>
  Good Luck, Argo

argistof@gmail.com wrote:
> I work for a company that has a program localy developed, and we were
having
> a problem when we started storing the application on the samba shared
drived
> mabye simular to what you are expereienceing.
> in ur smb.conf (usuly in /etc/samba/smb.conf) make sure on the shared drive
> in samba the oplocks are set (example below)
>  ... <insert more smb.conf here>
> ;================= Clinic ==========================> [shared]
> comment = Shared Drive Name
>  path = /home/mysharedstuff
> public = yes
> printable = no
> write list = @mygroup
> oplocks = 0
> level2 oplocks = 0
>  ... <insert more smb.conf here>
>  lines oplocks = 0 and level2 oplocks = 0 are the critical ones. This fixed
> the problems we were havign w/ the mdb might work for you :)
>  I also was fiddeling around w/ my smb.conf and noticed that the buffer
size
> was hidiously small, now if ur running a home pc w/ low resources
that's
> fine but for a corperate machine might wanna up the buffer size to help out
> performance. it's set above like this:
> ;===================== Global ====================> [global]
> workgroup = ltm
> comment = Welcome to LTM
> server string = Samba Server
> netbios name = swedish
> log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
> log level = 3
> max log size = 50
> security = user
> socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPOS_LOWDELAY SO_RCVBUF=20480 SO_SNDBUF=20480
> ... <insert more smb.conf here>
>   Good Luck, Argo
Have a look at:
http://www.drouillard.ca/Tips&Tricks/Samba/Oplocks.htm

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Regards
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Gerald Drouillard
Technology Architect
Drouillard & Associates, Inc.
http://www.Drouillard.ca