Quickbooks + samba

[David Collier-Brown]

Glenn MacGregor wrote:
> 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

	The switch to non-oplocked (visible in QB.QBW) is intentional,
	as we're responding to an access by breaking any oplocks.

	The "not a quickbooks file" indicates
	a) they picked a bad error message, or
	b) the file has been overwritten.

	As a first step, put oplocks=no in the share where
	the quickbooks files live: if the problem goes away,
	it's a quickbooks feature (;-)).  If not, we may have
	a samba issue.

	Is this Samba 2.0.7, and are any of the clients Win2000?
	
--dave
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