large quantity of fsa*.tmp files

[Scott Moomaw]

The permissions are fine on the files.  It appears that the temp-file
creation steps are subtledly different with the new antivirus software in
place thus causing problems with oplocks.

Scott

On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Torbjorn Jansson wrote:

> i got similar problems when i by mistake changed permisions so users coudnt
> delete files
>
> i think msoffice programs saves some temprary files when it tries to save
> for example word documents. if it cant delete the fsa file(s) it wond allow
> you to save the word document
>
> check if you can create files and delete them
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: samba-technical-admin at lists.samba.org
> > [mailto:samba-technical-admin at lists.samba.org]On Behalf Of Scott Moomaw
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 5:45 PM
> > To: Joe Meslovich
> > Cc: jra at samba.org; samba-technical at samba.org; samba at samba.org
> > Subject: Re: large quantity of fsa*.tmp files
> >
> >
> > Here's a little more info on the problem.  It seems to be related to a
> > deployment of Command Antivirus 4.62 for Win2K.  I don't think that this
> > is just a coincidence because the problems began last night after the
> > antivirus software installation, and the problems affected different
> > clients and differents samba servers.  Different applications are
> > generating tmp filenames with different file prefixes.  We were able to
> > work around the problem by adding "oplocks = no" to the smb.conf of both
> > servers.  It appears that a file is created, closed, and createX then
> > fails with a file exists message.
>
>
>


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