Multi user access to 1 data file

[Curtis Maurand]

Check your tcp options line.  I had the same problems.  First Windows
disconnects on a regular basis.  Its imperative that everyone be talking to
the same WINS server.  Samba doesn't like being a client and a server at the
same time.  Its best to have another machine do WINS.  If its a WINS server,
it doesn't seem to talk to itself.  I've had much better results having the
wins somewhere else.and point to it in the smb.conf file.  Otherwise make
sure your ip addresses are fixed and that you have host entries for them.
If you're talking about Quickbooks, I've been down this road.  the *.qbl
file doesn't like having its ownership changed.  It causes data corruption.
It doesn't seem to matter whether everyone has write access to it or not.  I
had to have everybody who accessed it log in as the same person for it to
work.

Curtis
----- Original Message -----
From: "dkwok" <dkwok at iware.com.au>
To: <samba at us5.samba.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 5:14 AM
Subject: Fw: Multi user access to 1 data file


>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dkwok <dkwok at iware.com.au>
> To: samba at lists.samba.org <samba at lists.samba.org>
> Date: Sunday, January 28, 2001 2:08 PM
> Subject: Multi user access to 1 data file
>
>
> >I have posted before on this issue.
> >
> >Thank you for some reply I 've got so far.
> >
> >However it does not seem to solve my problem yet.
> >
> >Thank you for Chris on the issue of Win95 client causing data corruption
on
> >shared data file.
> >
> >However, the problem is not only that Win95 corrupted data file. In
> >addition, the access time read and write is much slower if the data file
is
> >put on Samba server compared to a Win98 machine.
> >
> >What I have tried so far are:
> >
> >oplocks = no
> >level2 oplock = no
> >ole compatibility = no
> >oplocks content limit = 4 (although I am not sure whether this is to do
> with
> >the no. of acces client? Could anyone enlighten me on this issue)
> >
> >I heard that win98 vredir.vxd has significant improved and will not cause
> >any data corruption. However I don't know whether I should still turn off
> >the cache
> >
> >HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VsD\
> >VREDIR\DiscardCOnOpen=1
> >
> >The main question is why the performance of Win98 as a file server in
this
> >case much better than Samba. With 2 client sharing a data file. Win98
> update
> >a file in 5 seconds compared to 1 min in the case of Samba server.
> >
> >Could someone from the Samba Team to comment this? This is probably too
> >technical for users!
> >
> >I would appreciate any suggestion or any pointers.
> >
> >David Kwok
> >
>
>