Delays opening Excel/Word files off samba shares.

[Jeremy Allison]

On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 10:45:21PM -0000, Noel Kelly wrote:
> 
> Moving on to the main point though, in disabling oplocks we have had little
> or no performance degradation (about 30 clients thus far) and have had no
> trouble at all with several users opening Office 2000 files.  I believe that
> NT/2000 clients will request locking the file themselves and smbstatus seems
> to report the files as locked.  As a case in point, we have a shared Excel
> spreadsheet we fill in hours spent on projects.  If someone has this open
> then Excel throws up the 'This file is locked - Notify etc etc' and it works
> without a hitch.  We also are running the Sage accounting suite off the
> Samba shares and similarly have had no problem with file locking.

That's deny modes and byte range locking - that's different from
oplocks. Oplocks are badly named. They should be called "file leases".

Jeremy.