Can I have oplocks enabled without problems?

Mike Fedyk mfedyk at matchmail.com
Mon May 7 23:51:51 GMT 2001


On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 05:46:03PM -0400, All-Ireland Racing/Guinness Cycling Team wrote:
> Windows 95 has bugs in the oplock code. I'm not sure if Windows 98 continues
> that fine tradition or not, but from what you're saying it sure seems to. If
> you have any 95 machines on your network, turn off oplocks. The same may be
> the case for 98. You'll simply have to deal with the performance hit.
> 
I haven't worked with Access files, but I haven't had trouble with win98 and
locking.

I wonder what NT does in this situation.  Detect bad_locking/win95?




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