[Samba] Locks troubles with samba 2.2.2/.3a

[Gerald Drouillard]

See the attached message from yesterday.  I submitted a test program a few
days ago to Jeremy and he was able to find a issue with Samba locking which
he believes is fixed now.

Regards
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Gerald Drouillard
Owner and Consultant
Drouillard & Associates
http://www.Drouillard.ca

> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-admin at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-admin at lists.samba.org]On
> Behalf Of Pablo Alcaraz
> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 9:51 AM
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Cc: Pablo Alcaraz
> Subject: [Samba] Locks troubles with samba 2.2.2/.3a
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I just install 2.2.2 in a Red Hat 7.2 with kernel 2.4.16 on ext 3 + lvm.
>
> The problem are the locks!!!!!!
>
> I've 5 users working in .dbf + cdx (foxpro) files with an 16 bits
> application. It accesses to the files via DAO 2.0.  A lot of times in
> the days the users gets 'currently locked' messages when the application
> open the dbf's files with read only access!
>
> I desactivated the oplocks, but the error continues.
>
> With the oplocks activated I get file corruptions inside the dbf's. For
> example, one dbf was truncated to exactly 65kb...
>
> We work with Folio Infobase files. Now, when 2 users access to the same
> record the second user get the locked messagge 30 sec after the locked
> happened. This error happen on NT 4 +sp5/6 but it doesn't happen on
> Windows 2000
>
> All these programs work perfectly with Novell and Windows file servers.
>
> We can't use samba 2.0.7 because the security is setted to domain.
>
> I upgraded to 2.2.3a but the errors continue happening.
>
> If someone can suggest *anything*, I'll be really happy to listen
> him/her. If someone need that I test anything I have hardware to do so.
>
> I send you my smb.conf file.
>
> Please, CC me :-)
>
> Pablo
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