[Samba] Windows 98 caching too much

Rashkae rashkae at tigershaunt.com
Tue Feb 27 05:23:13 GMT 2007


Daniel O'Connor wrote:

> 
> They were modifying the file on the unix side "behind Samba's back" so of 
> course the caching was a problem. I'm not sure why it didn't show up in XP 
> systems though.
> 

Since your hosting this on BSD, which, to the best of my knowledge, 
doesn't support kernel oplocks, you probably *really* want to disable 
those if files are being modified in such a way.  There's much potential 
for all kinds of things to go horribly wrong otherwise.

oplocks = no  should do it.



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