Can I have oplocks enabled without problems?

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Windows 95 has bugs in the oplock code. I'm not sure if Windows 98 continues
that fine tradition or not, but from what you're saying it sure seems to. If
you have any 95 machines on your network, turn off oplocks. The same may be
the case for 98. You'll simply have to deal with the performance hit.

-Bill

-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Demou <ndemou at enlogic.gr>
To: samba List <samba at lists.samba.org>
Date: Saturday, May 05, 2001 12:41 PM
Subject: Can I have oplocks enabled without problems?


>Hi,
>
>I used to have a win NT to serve small office networks comprised of windows
>clients. During the last months I have made a considerable effort to learn
>enough about linux in order to explore it's capabilities for that
>application. In the area of file & print sharing samba still looks as the
>best choice. I am using it in my office for some weeks now and I am quite
>happy with it. Yet I had one problem regarding locking that troubled me a
>lot (in fact the list helped me a lot in finding the solution):
>
>In my setup with RedHat 7.0 + Samba 2.2 I had to disable oplocks (set
>oplocks = no) for shares containing databases (specificaly MS Access ones)
>that were accessed simultaneously from more than one windows 98 clients. If
>I left it enabled I was getting a lot of "access denied", "this file is
>allready in use" and stuff like that. Disabling oplocks solves the problem
>but according to the "Using samba" reference lowers performance. Has
anybody
>any sugestions in order to have both the performance and the stability???
>
>Nick Demou
>enLogic
>
>
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