Bad performance with samba3

[Fabien Chevalier]

Le Mardi 17 Février 2004 16:12, Olaf Frączyk a écrit :
> On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 15:46, Raphael Berghmans wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > Since our files server has been migrated from NT4 to Samba
> > 3, several users complains that the time to open a Word or
> > xls file is very long (about 30 seconds).
> >
> > Which could be the reasons of this bad performance ?
> >
> > Which parameters have to be modified ?
>
> Check if it is not oplock problem.
> If you it is, then turn oplock off in smb.conf.

I'm a newbie to Samba and i'd like to learn.. :-)

Could you explain why it could be related with oplocks? 

bye,

Fabien