Serious Samba-Bug ?

[Gerald Carter]

On Wed, 8 May 2002, Lars Heineken wrote:

> Hi !
> 
> I testested it against the latest release 2.2.4 and accessing the mapped
> drive as resource for the windows-CD-ROM still locks the Win98-Machine.
> As you suggested, I have made a level 10 logging:
> 
> I knwo I should have put this on the ftp, but I was not shure where to
> store it. Beside, it's not that big.

Try setting "kernel oplocks = no" on that share.




jerry



> On Fri, 3 May 2002 13:43:57 -0500 (CDT)
> Gerald Carter <jerry at samba.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 3 May 2002, Lars Heineken wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi Folks !
> > > 
> > > Today I found another bug in vesrion 2.2.3a : Our unix-server hosts a
> > > samba-share that contains all files from the win98-CD. Every
> > > win98-client maps this share as drive Z. He uses this drive when win98s
> > > asks for the windows-cd. After Upgrading the server from samba 2.0.7 to
> > > samba 2.2.3a the win98-machine locks when he tries to access this
> > > "windows-cd-rom-drive-share" The normal browsing via explorer works
> > > fine, but the selection of "Z:\" as Source of the win98-CD (during the
> > > dialog "new hadrware found" eg.) locks the win-machine completely. After
> > > changing the binaries smbd and nmbd back to version 2.0.7 on the server,
> > > everything workes fine again.
> > > 
> > 
> > Please try to reproduce this against Samba 2.2.4.  If the 
> > problem still occurs, a level 10 debug log of the client
> > connection posted via FTP would be helpful.
> > 
> > 





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