[Samba] Microsoft Outlook pst files unable to open or create

[Michael Wood]

On 10 May 2011 21:14, Doug Tucker <tuckerd at lyle.smu.edu> wrote:
> "Microsoft Outlook's personal folders (*.pst) react quite badly to
> oplocks."
>
> This statement got to me.  So I created a share on the local drive of
> the server and wallah..Outlook can write a .pst file.  So it has to do
> with doing it over nfs.  I could understand this from an OS level, but I
> cannot wrap my head around  why only outlook?  Every other application
> works fine.

Re-exporting an NFS mount with Samba is asking for trouble.

See the following messages from some of the Samba developers:
http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2007-February/129104.html
http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2008-May/140374.html
http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2008-July/142215.html
http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2008-July/142131.html

Also:
http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2008-January/137441.html
http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2005-May/105986.html
http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2008-July/142214.html

-- 
Michael Wood <esiotrot at gmail.com>