[Samba] Oplocks - samba 2.2.4 & Windows 2000 server

[Peter Polkinghorne]

In investigating some performance issues (elderly server with just 10Mbps
ethernet), I noticed that smbstatus reported hardly any open files with
oplocks.  In particular files opened with Office 2000 & XP stay un-oplocked.

I have checked and testparm claims oplocks are enabled and manual says this
is so by default.

The clients are all Windows 2000 servers - so we have 1 samba connection with
multiple users. The Samba servers are 2.2.4 on Solaris 2.6.

I am concerned because this means excess data traffic and lost opportunity
for performance boost.

Is there something on the Windows side I need to do?  I assume Samba is OK
(initially thought not as thought no oplocks being used ...)

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