[Samba] First attempt file access denied subsequent file accesses granted

[John Drescher]

>            We’re running
> 3.0.28.el4.9 on CentOS 4.7 in a production environment with one minor annoyance.
> This is a very inconsistent behavior ,frequent enough top be annoying ,yet
> unpredictable enough to warrant this email.
> Our Samba server is serving up a wide variety of files but in this
> instance in particular are Visual Fox Pro tables (*.dbf).
>
> When a user wishes to open a Fox Pro table with the browse
> or use command from the Fox Pro command line ,the users is granted file
> access. When a user makes an attempt to use the table through the GUI (windows file open,or explorer) the first
> attempt results with an access denied message, however subsequent attempts
> result in normal file access. I’ve been unable to find a parameter within Samba
> that changes this behavior and as I related this is a very inconsistent
> behavior.  I’m not entirely sure this is
> a samba issue or if there maybe some windows registry setting that I can change on
> the client machines, it is noteworthy it didn’t start happening until we
> converted the file share to Samba.
>
> Any assistance would greatly be appreciated,
>

How have you configured oplocks? Also can you update samba. 3.0.28 is ancient.

John