[Samba]DOS app won't run off a Samba drive!

[Greg Conway]

Hi Rashkae,

Well, all these "oplocks" are a little new to me!

I have been running off the same smb.conf for the last six or seven
machines, and this is the first time I have encountered problems since I
spent a long time writing that original smb.conf!

So do I presume...

you can put a "oplocks" section in the [global] section, to enable oplocks -
are they enabled by default? is this why I have never heard of them before?

you can then put a "veto oplocks" section into individual shares ie [data],
to remove oplocks from that particular share.

Sorry to be thick, can somebody please explain to me in windows-users terms
:) exactly what oplocks does? It is similar to SHARE.EXE? Why do my Win2k
machines work be default but not my Win98 machines?

Anyway, just interested in the hows and whys rather than blindly fixing
things and not knowing how I did it!!

Regards,

Greg.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rashkae [mailto:rashkae at wealthmap.ca]
> Sent: 29 January 2002 14:33
> To: Dragos
> Cc: Greg Conway; Samba
> Subject: Re: [Samba]DOS app won't run off a Samba drive!
>
>
> Why not just disable openlocks entirely? Makes allot of sense to me for  a
> server that primarily dishes out multi-user files, oplocks at best is a
> performance hindrance, at worst a dangerous database corrupting monster.
>
> (I think your able to disable oplocks on a share by share basis, if you
> have other shares where oplocks would be useful.)
>
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Dragos wrote:
>
> glad to hear that it works...:)
> however, keep the 'veto oplocks files' option handy, because when
> you'll have
> more than one connection to the share (multiple win clients working on the
> database) things will slow down.
>
> dragos

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