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kernel oplocks (G) For UNIXs that support kernel based oplocks (currently only IRIX but hopefully also Linux and FreeBSD soon) this parameter allows the use of them to be turned on or off. Kernel oplocks support allows Samba oplocks to be broken whenever a local UNIX process or NFS operation accesses a file that smbd has oplocked. This allows complete data

Goldmine seems to a compiled database application compiled in something likeClipper. Clipper applications record lock through ISAM like files (DBF). However, in Windows NT/2000/XP, Opportunistic locking is turned on by default in order to accelerate file transfer from file services. [Windows 95/98 did not Opportunisticly lock] However, opportunistic locking corrupts ISAM and ISAM like

Hello, I have a server samba/linux executing a software Delphi with access to database Paradox. The configurations are OK, but when more than an user is accessing the system, he is very slow. How can I solve this problem? Regard?s F?bio Ferreira fabio@datafusion.com.br

I have searched google for a while and have not resolved this issue. I am using win98/TextPad 4.0 on a client modifying CGI Scripts in Perl I open up scripts and make changes then close them via Samba, but when someone requests the cgi scripts Apache responds with an Error. When I run the script from bash it replys text file busy. It turns out the there are 2 hacks: um-mount and re-mount the

Hi, I am new to this list, so please excuse any redundancy in my question. I have 60 Windows XP users who are tied into three Mac OSX File - Xserve file servers. There is one big problem - ... we are having issues with Excel files, that on occasion, are not being recognized, taking literally minutes to load and other quirky abnormalities. Excel on the XP desktop machines will refuse to save

In order to deal with bizarre MS Office junk, it looks like I may have to disable oplocks on my samba server. What kinds of problems, if any could arise from my having disabled the oplocks? Alex Laslavic Havertys Tech Services

Looking for help ! We have a rather strange problem working with Samba installed on a DEC Alpha server, when reading an exported directory from Windows. We are using an application written in C that reads a file from drive E: where a directory exported from Alpha is mounted. Once the file is read, all the further readings ignore changes in the file (file is changed on Alpha). Even as we read it

Hello everybody, We are using Samba 2.02 on Sun Solaris 2.51 and 2.6 platforms. Using these as a file server we occasionally have the following problem: - the file is changed on the file server using standard UNIX tools while somebody else is editing it - the other user re-loads the file using a Windows 95 client - the content of the file seems to be the same as before the change on the windows

I thought I had things figured out, but guess not. I have multi-user Quickbooks databases that functioned fine on a Novell server but are behaving badly on a Samba share. I have created a separate share for the Quickbook databases, users are running Win XP Pro, latest patches, and the Quickbooks application installed on the desktop. It is a multiuser version. Server is RedHat ES 3, Samba

Hello all, I have a samba 2.2.1a server running as the PDC of my network on a Mandrake 8.0 system with a reiserFS partition. I am serving for the win98 clients a small DOS clipper program with a DBF database. The programs run well on the workstations when there is only one user using it, when another user try to use the same program it starts to get very slow. I think this is a lock

Hi Can anyone advise me on "kernel oplocks" in a ctdb cluster. I have a ctdb (GPFS is the parallel file system) setup that uses samba (3.5.8) for cifs and IBM CNFS for NFS. Reading the documentation on kernel oplocks it seems to me that I can export the same area via samba and NFS with "kernel oplocks = Yes" . My logic is that IBM CNFS has shared NFS locking

The second instance of Quickbooks shows a "file may be corrupt" message. 56310 DENY_NONE 0x2019f RDWR EXCLUSIVE+BATCH /MY_REALLY_LONG_PATH/My File.QBW Thu Mar 3 19:42:20 2005 56310 DENY_NONE 0x2019f RDWR EXCLUSIVE+BATCH / MY_REALLY_LONG_PATH/My File.QBI Thu Mar 3 19:42:20 2005 It works on Windows - just copied the same file to a network mapped windows

Debian and Samba Teams: I'm having a really weird problem with Samba 3.0Beta2+RC4 on my Debian Sarge (testing) system with Quickbooks Pro 2002 multi-user version. The version of my question is: Does anybody know what the proper global, share, and permissions settings should be to support multi-user Quickbooks on a Samba share? The Long Version: The Quickbooks data-file resides on it's

Hi, I have an Informix program that unload data to a file in a samba directory. Problem is although the file has changed, I still see the old data from my Windows 98 SE PC. I only see the updated data after refreshing the snmba directory numerous times. Sometimes I have to wait for more that 10 minutes !! Funny thing is this problem does not apply to my friend's PC. Why is this so and

Hello to All! I've got a problem moving my ACT 2000 database from WinXP to Samba server on Linux. All clients are WinXP systems, Samba 2.2.5 runs on Debian Linux, 2.4.18 kernel. I have a share with ACT database which is connected to all WinXP systems as a mapped network drive. The first client starts ACT successfuly but when I try to launch ACT on the second client it says that ACT database

The first time a Word or Excel file is opened, i.e., when either Word or Excel have not been actively running "recently" (like, say for several minutes or more), the time it takes to start the application and load the file seem inordinately long. Once the first evolution is complete, files open more-or-less instantly if I close the first document but leave either app running (but

We recently tried the upgrade to 2.0 Beta series (just finished testing Beta 4) on our network. Everything works fine with 1.9.18pl10, but once we start 2.0 in its place we start getting the following in the log files: [1998/12/17 05:00:12, 1] smbd/files.c:file_init(219) file_init: Information only: requested 10000 open files, 246 are available. [1998/12/17 05:07:52, 1]

Hi all, We have a HP-UX 11i server running as a samba server. Users use Windows 2000 boxes with Service Pack 4 to connect to the samba server. Several days ago, we upgraded samba server from 2.0.7 to 3.0.5, and we started to experience the following problem: The general connection and access to the samba server is ok. However, under the samba share there have been some directories mounted from

I have a deployment of Windows 7 desktops and a Samba 4 file server running on Debian 7. The Windows clients have AD policies that tell the desktop to do Folder Redirection to the Samba server. This seems to work great except for occasional hangs. When the hang happens, some applications on Windows 7 desktops will just stop responding for 5-15 seconds. Nothing breaks and no errors happen, but the

hi all Subject: 1) Samba server 3.0.15 with one shared sesource Security is set to SHARE, all guest users have full read/write access to the share 2) Microsoft network clients is Windows 98, Windows 2000 and Windows XP (sp2) 3) Old-age DOS program, written on Clipper (xBase), what runs on Windows 98 and on Windows XP/2k (ntvdm) 4) Large multi-user database (dbf files) on samba server