samba - Mar 2009 - First attempt file access denied subsequent file accesses granted

Hi List,

            We?re running
3.0.28.el4.9 on CentOS 4.7 in a production environment with one minor annoyance.
This is a very inconsistent behavior ,frequent enough top be annoying ,yet
unpredictable enough to warrant this email. 
Our Samba server is serving up a wide variety of files but in this
instance in particular are Visual Fox Pro tables (*.dbf).

When a user wishes to open a Fox Pro table with the browse
or use command from the Fox Pro command line ,the users is granted file
access. When a user makes an attempt to use the table through the GUI (windows
file open,or explorer) the first
attempt results with an access denied message, however subsequent attempts
result in normal file access. I?ve been unable to find a parameter within Samba
that changes this behavior and as I related this is a very inconsistent
behavior.  I?m not entirely sure this is
a samba issue or if there maybe some windows registry setting that I can change
on
the client machines, it is noteworthy it didn?t start happening until we
converted the file share to Samba. 

Any assistance would greatly be appreciated,

Thank you,

L. Kipp

            


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> ? ? ? ? ? ?We?re running
> 3.0.28.el4.9 on CentOS 4.7 in a production environment with one minor
annoyance.
> This is a very inconsistent behavior ,frequent enough top be annoying ,yet
> unpredictable enough to warrant this email.
> Our Samba server is serving up a wide variety of files but in this
> instance in particular are Visual Fox Pro tables (*.dbf).
>
> When a user wishes to open a Fox Pro table with the browse
> or use command from the Fox Pro command line ,the users is granted file
> access. When a user makes an attempt to use the table through the GUI
(windows file open,or explorer) the first
> attempt results with an access denied message, however subsequent attempts
> result in normal file access. I?ve been unable to find a parameter within
Samba
> that changes this behavior and as I related this is a very inconsistent
> behavior. ?I?m not entirely sure this is
> a samba issue or if there maybe some windows registry setting that I can
change on
> the client machines, it is noteworthy it didn?t start happening until we
> converted the file share to Samba.
>
> Any assistance would greatly be appreciated,
>
How have you configured oplocks? Also can you update samba. 3.0.28 is ancient.

John

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Wikked one <wikked1@hotmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi John
>
> I have configured oplocks and been unable to see any difference in
behavior.
>
How about error logs. Is there an error message in the samba logs when
this happens?

John

No errors that I can correlate back to the file access denied.
My primary user reports that so far this morning she has not had the behavior.