Real lock mecanism failure

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at pcug.org.au
Wed Jun 20 14:45:40 GMT 2001


Christophe Conduché wrote:
> 
> Hi !
> 
> We have a very annoying problem with samba.
> After trying many configurations, we can't solve it
> (we played with smb.conf oplocks options, buufers, and so on, either
> with registry keys on the nt server)
> 
> the context :
> 
> files are stored on a nt server
> 
> they need to be accessed from windows or from linux world thrue a shared
> directory mounted on a linux server with smbmount.
> 
> all is perfect if people access files only from the windows world or
> only from the linux world.
> 
> when cross access occurs, files are corrupted. cross sharing doesn't
> work at all
> (or we can't arrive to make it work)
> we tested it with samba 2.0.9, 2.2.0 and CVS version (yesterday
> snapshot)
> we are using a debian server with kernet 2.4.3
> 
> is there any solution to this problem ?
> is it a real problem or a configuration problem ?
> 
> if this is not the right place for such a question, please tell it also
> in order i don't waste your time and my time. (i asked this, because i
> didn't get any answer to my previous post !)
> 
> best regards.

See
http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/samba-technical/2001-June/013815.html
about this known (smbfs) bug and a possible patch.

-- 
Andrew Bartlett
abartlet at pcug.org.au
abartlet at samba.org




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