goldmine - anyone using it with 2.2a3?

kat kathee at mindiq.com
Tue Apr 10 13:57:13 GMT 2001


It used to happen, but less frequently on 2.0.7 -- I only run 2.2a3 and 
2.07 on my servers right now. a3 for the PDC support.

-K

At 08:36 AM 4/10/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 07:48:21 kat wrote:
> >
> > Later they came back and asked if Linux/samba did locking
> > -- I said  yes (I had level 2 locks turned on) They said to
> > turn then off.  I did --  problem is worse.
>
>level II oplocks allow a client to dowgrade an exclusive
>(read/write) lock to a read only lock.  Shouldn't have really
>been an issue here.  If you set locking = no, then that would
>have been bad.
>
> > Bottom line, is anyone else running an app like this off
> > a samba server  where the app does the record locking but
> > seems to lose it's mind now and  then?  For what it is worth,
> > the previous version we had (4.0 -- now we are at 5.5) did
> > not have any of these problems... You would think the
> > vendor  would get a clue.
>
>Kat,  Can you recreate this against the latest Samba 2.2. code?
>
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>
>Cheers, jerry
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