Quickbooks + samba

[Glenn MacGregor]

Maybe my first subject wasn't exactly correct...
Glenn MacGregor wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I don't seem to be able to subscrube to the samba list because I am on
> ht esamba-ntdom list, so can you please respond directly to me.
>
> I have put up a share for the accounting people where tey store the
> quickbooks files.  When one person accesses the file everything is
> fine.  smbstatus looks like this:
>
> Locked files:
> Pid    DenyMode   R/W        Oplock           Name
> --------------------------------------------------
> 2216   DENY_NONE  RDWR       EXCLUSIVE+BATCH
> /usr1/oracom/accounting/Quickbooks 2000/Active/New QB.QBI   Tue Sep 12
> 13:03:07 2000
> 2216   DENY_NONE  RDWR       EXCLUSIVE+BATCH
> /usr1/oracom/accounting/Quickbooks 2000/Active/New QB.QBW   Tue Sep 12
> 13:03:06 2000
>
> notice the Quickbooks stuff has the exclusive+batch oplock.  Now when
> someone else tries to access the file (which is allowed, it worked when
> I had the files on an NT workstation) they get an error saying it is not
> a quickbooks file, and the smbstatus follows:
>
> Locked files:
> Pid    DenyMode   R/W        Oplock           Name
> --------------------------------------------------
> 2216   DENY_NONE  RDWR       EXCLUSIVE+BATCH
> /usr1/oracom/accounting/Quickbooks 2000/Active/New QB.QBI   Tue Sep 12
> 13:03:07 2000
> 2229   DENY_ALL   RDWR       EXCLUSIVE+BATCH
> /usr1/oracom/accounting/Quickbooks 2000/Active/INET/_License.tmp   Tue
> Sep 12 13:07:33 2000
> 2229   DENY_NONE  RDONLY     NONE
> /usr1/oracom/accounting/Quickbooks 2000/Active/New QB.QBW   Tue Sep 12
> 13:07:33 2000
> 2216   DENY_NONE  RDWR       NONE
> /usr1/oracom/accounting/Quickbooks 2000/Active/New QB.QBW   Tue Sep 12
> 13:03:06 2000
>
> Another smbstatus later in time:
>
> Locked files:
> Pid    DenyMode   R/W        Oplock           Name
> --------------------------------------------------
> 2318   DENY_NONE  RDWR       NONE
> /usr1/oracom/accounting/Quickbooks 2000/Active/New QB.QBI   Tue Sep 12
> 13:11:51 2000
> 2328   DENY_NONE  RDWR       NONE
> /usr1/oracom/accounting/Quickbooks 2000/Active/New QB.QBW   Tue Sep 12
> 13:14:01 2000
> 2318   DENY_NONE  RDWR       NONE
> /usr1/oracom/accounting/Quickbooks 2000/Active/New QB.QBW   Tue Sep 12
> 13:11:50 2000
>
> So we have no oplocks and everything is read write.
>
> Any help would be great.
>
>         Thanks
>
>                 Glenn
>
> --
>
> Glenn MacGregor
>
> Director of Services
> Oracom, Inc.
> http://www.oracom.com
>
> Tel. +1 978.557.5710 Ext. 302
> Fax  +1 978.557.5716

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Glenn MacGregor

Director of Services
Oracom, Inc.
http://www.oracom.com

Tel. +1 978.557.5710 Ext. 302
Fax  +1 978.557.5716