[Samba] ACT 5.0 and Samba

[David Morel]

Chris Nolan wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> One of my clients loves ACT for some reason unknown to both them and 
> myself. They want multiple people to be able to access the thing at the 
> same time.
> 
> Here's the problem - every now and then the people using it give me 
> reports of the clients crashing. Reindexing the "database" if you can 
> call it that, solves the problem.
> 
> Is there some sort of behaviour that the users could be performing that 
> is causing this problem (one of them adds fields with disturbing 
> frequency) or is it something I might have wrong on the Samba side of 
> things (Mandrake 8.1, using Samba 2.2.2 on ReiserFS 3.6.25).
> 
> Any suggestions would be cheerfully received!

the usual suggestion would be to upgrade samba to latest version and 
disable oplocks on the database