Copy/open file from Unix through Samba problem

[Alex Satrapa]

Could this be a problem with opportunistic locking?
Perhaps experiment with "oplocks = no" in your smb.conf.

Just a guess
Alex

"Tse, Sam" wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> We are using Samba 2.0.2 on DG/UX r4.2mu03. One of the users is experiencing
> a weir problem to copy files from the Unix share to local c drive. He copied
> the file ok first time. After he changed the file on Unix, when he tried to
> copy the updated file, he got the old file, even after he closed Explorer
> and open again.
> 
> Another user has a similar problem. He opened a file on the Unix share using
> Excel and closed it. After he modified the file on Unix, when he opened it
> from Excel again, he still got the old file.
> 
> Somehow the old file is being cached somewhere?
> 
> Anybody has idea about this?
> 
> thanks
> Sam