[Samba] Samba moves in mysterious ways

[Andrew Bartlett]

"Petter T. Olsson" wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
>         One week ago I set-up an new server using RH 7.2 and Samba
> 2.2.0.  Everything seems to be working just fine except for one major
> problem, describe in the following to example:
> 
>         1.  I have a /tmp folder which all users have full access to.  I
> filled this folder with documents from their old server (Windows 2000
> Server).  All documents can be opened and saved fine with one exception.
> If, for instance, a Word document is opened and then saved using Save As
> the files becomes corrupt in someway and can not be opened.  

Well there are known issues with the write cache in current versions of
Samba - I would suggest either disabling this option, or getting latest
2.2 CVS.

> ----smb.conf file begins here----
> [global]
> 
>         write cache size = 262144

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Andrew Bartlett                                 abartlet at pcug.org.au
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