Visual Studio 6 + Samba 2.2.5 misbehaves.

[Fredrik Ohrn]

On 1 Aug 2002, Mike Gerdts wrote:

> This sounds like you have clocks out of sync.  Be sure that the time on
> your workstation, the Samba server, and any NFS servers that Samba may
> get shares from all have clocks that are in sync.  I highly suggest
> using NTP between all servers.  Once you have NTP running on a unix
> server, you can convince win2k clients to sync with that server using:
> 
> net time /setsntp:unixservername
> 

That was a good start, the client and server was 20 seconds out of sync.

Now the "file changed outside editor" message is gone. I just tried the 
same procedure on two XP boxes sharing files with their clocks out of 
sync. The problem never surfaced.

Is this a bug in samba that it cant handle out of sync clocks or is it 
just not possible to do a better implementation?


Also the "delayed write failed" doesn't happen right away as it did 
before. Now I have to wait untill samba disconnects the drive due to 
inactivity (as specified by deadtime). Stopping and restarting Visual 
Studio cures it (untill the nex timeout).


Regards,
Fredrik

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Fredrik Öhrn                               Chalmers University of Technology
ohrn at chl.chalmers.se                                                  Sweden