Oplock not working with Win98 client?

[Mike Thompson]

Hello,

I hope this is the right place to ask this question.

I have a Win98 client accessing a Samba version 2.0.5a mount
on a FreeBSD 2.2.8 system.  When a Windows application attempts
to write a file to the samba mount the application freezes for
about 30 seconds and then finally the write takes place.  Looking
in the log.smb file I find the following tell tail debug messages:

[1999/10/07 12:03:31, 0] smbd/oplock.c:oplock_break(905)
   oplock_break resend
[1999/10/07 12:03:41, 0] smbd/oplock.c:oplock_break(905)
   oplock_break resend
[1999/10/07 12:03:51, 0] smbd/oplock.c:oplock_break(905)
   oplock_break resend
[1999/10/07 12:04:01, 0] smbd/oplock.c:oplock_break(922)
   oplock_break: receive_smb timed out after 30 seconds.

This gave me enough of a hint to add the following to my
smb.conf file to avoid this problem:

oplocks = no

Is there a known issue with oplocks not working with Win98
clients or FreeBSD 2.2.x servers?  I would like to work
with oplocks enabled to get the higher performance offered
by this feature.

Any help would be appreciated.

Mike Thompson
mike at atomz.com



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