[Samba] Fwd: file locking issue

[Jim Young]

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From: Jim Young <jim.young at ucalgary.ca>
Date: 7 Apr 2008 09:11
Subject: file locking issue
To: samba at lists.samba.org

Hello,
  Until recently, I could work from my samba share and do the following:
Edit a latex document, compile, view its pdf output in kpdf/xpdf.  Leave the
pdf viewer open, modify the document, recompile. then get the pdf viewer to
reload (r key in xpdf). This no longer works, as the latex compile complains
that it cannot open the output pdf file for writing.

this seems like a file lock issue but I am unsure where it is happening. My
previous usage should be perfectly safe since xpdf should only open for
reading. I am not sure which upgrades correspond to this breaking as I was
not using latex continuously.

  I am running Debian Unstable, using smbclient/smbfs 3.0.28a-1 to connect
to a samba server (unix backend) on my university network. Server:
Samba3.0.10-1.4E

I mount the smb share in my fstab as follows:

//myserver/jyoung    /mnt/uni        smbfs
credentials=credsfile,gid=jyoung,uid=jyoung,auto,rw


I spoke with my system administrator and he said it may also be possible to
get the server settings changed depending on what is required (and the
implications).

Thanks

Jim


-- 
James Young, B.Sc.
Ph.D. Student
Interactions laboratory, Department of Computer Science, University of
Calgary
2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 1N4
Phone: +1.403.210.9502
E-mail: jim.young at ucalgary.ca
URL: http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~jyoung/<http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/%7Ejyoung/>

-- 
James Young, B.Sc.
Ph.D. Student
Interactions laboratory, Department of Computer Science, University of
Calgary
2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 1N4
Phone: +1.403.210.9502
E-mail: jim.young at ucalgary.ca
URL: http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~jyoung/