2.2.2 and oplocks and Word

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Scott Moomaw wrote:

> I'm inclined to believe that the problem we saw with lots of TMP files
> being created might be related to this.  FWIW, I've included the
> earlier email snippet that detailed what we saw.  I believe that the
> method of temporary file management used by some windows applications
> isn't yet 100% supported in Samba.  I've left our system with oplocks
> disabled since this problem occured so I don't have more info;
> however, I just wanted to throw this into the mix since it seems (at
> least to me :-) to be somewhat related.

Could be....


> > [2001/09/25 10:07:04, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(583)
> >   jclinedi opened file president/ehylton/teefall01/fsa2C1F.tmp read=Yes
> > write=No  (numopen=2)

By opening a file RDONLY, a client is not able to remove the file.
Although I'm not sure why oplocks are affecting this.  This is the same
behavior I'm seeing with Word2000.

Very puzzling...






cheers, jerry
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