[Samba] Different behaviour of samba share in XP and Windows 2003 Server

[Kiran VM]

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 08:38:09 -0600, Gerald (Jerry) Carter
<jerry at samba.org> wrote:
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> Kiran VM wrote:
> | Hello,
> |
> | I have an MFC program that access a file in the samba (3.0.10) share
> | with the following code.
> |
> |       CString strSearchPath = _T("\\\\TestServer\\TestShare\\tempfile.txt");
> |               CStdioFile fValueFile;
> |               if( !fValueFile.Open(strSearchPath,CFile::modeReadWrite  ) )
> |               {
> |                       cout<<GetLastError()<<endl;
> |               }
> |               else
> |               {
> |                       cout<<"Opened"<<endl;
> |               }
> |
> |               //CloseHandle( (HANDLE)fValueFile.m_hFile );
> |               fValueFile.Close();
> |
> | If i run this code on a Windows 2003 server, it leaves one HANDLE
> | open. but if i try this operation from a windows XP ( with SP2)
> | machine, every thing is fine.
> |
> | Also this leak seems to happen only for a samba share. If the
> | "strSearchPath" is replaced with a Windows share, there is no leak.
> 
> Could you retest against 3.0.13 and let me know if this is still
> an issue ?
> 
> cheers, jerry


Hello Jerry,

I just now compiled and installed 3.0.13. But the result is the same.
Any idea why this is happening?

Thanks in advance for your help,
Kiran