Visual Studio 6 + Samba 2.2.5 misbehaves.

[Andrew Bartlett]

Fredrik Ohrn wrote:
> 
> 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).

As a basic rule, setting 'deadtime' is a bad idea.  Is there any reason
to set this paramater?

Andrew Bartlett

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