[Samba] Strange Problem with Access
Ruben Fagundo
rfagundo at npv.com
Tue Mar 5 17:19:03 GMT 2002
I would like to pose the following problem to this mailing list to see if
any of you have any suggestions you may offer.
I am running samba on a RedHat 7.2 Athalon box with software RAID 0 dual
IDE disks on an ext3 filesystem.
I have several users in a large community of users that are always hitting
the samba server. The machine has been consistently reliable with one
exception. There is a particularly large MS Access Database (10Meg) that
everyone likes to use. A problem has developed from certain Win 98 and
Win95 computers where users get an error message saying that someone
currently has a lock on the database, and that it cannot be
opened. However, smbstatus, reports that the user is actually trying to
establish a lock on a different file, not the database in question. To add
to the strangeness, I have opened the database on a different computer, and
then all of a sudden everyone else can now open it as well. In addition to
that, I had the database open from a win 98 machine, and someone else (that
had been experiencing problems) opened it up, but smbstatus reports that
the 2nd individual had a second file open in addition to the database, and
clearly there were no other files open on that computer, by that user. So,
we have files opening and getting locked when they were not opened, and a
database that only certain users can open, cause other computers are being
told that it is already open, and locked by a different user.
Can anyone tell me what the heck is going on here, and what is the answer
to this apparent lunacy ???
Thanks,
Ruben
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