Thanks for fixing oplock.c for Linux 2.0 in 2_2 CVS

abartlet at samba.org abartlet at samba.org
Wed May 29 16:49:03 GMT 2002


On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 04:43:05PM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 08:10:22AM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > 
> > Isn't there a way we can 'idle' the connection by tearing down the
> > protocol?  Actually issuing a 'you are idle, shutting down' to the
> > client?  
> 
> Nope - would require a client change I'm afraid. There's nothing
> in the protocol to allow this.

What about at the NetBIOS level?  I'm wondering how somthing like NetBEUI 
(being just raw netbios on ethernet effectivly) closes connections.

And are you saying that Win2k will never 'idle' a client connection?  I'm
sure I've seen smbfs being 'idled' by NT before...

Andrew Bartlett




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