[Samba] Documentation / boolean fix for oplocks = command

[WEBSTER, Greg]

Basically, when we moved the files for our rather ancient accounting
software (Dexco) over to Samba (from Novell filesharing), it slowed to a
crawl. Speaking to the Dexco people, they suggested it was the oplocks
causing a problem. Once I specified 'oplocks = False' it sped up to
(perhaps) a little faster than access to the Novell fileserver was.

No errors or anything...it just didn't work until I did that.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gerald Carter [mailto:jerry at samba.org]
> Sent: July 26, 2002 9:37 AM
> To: WEBSTER, Greg
> Cc: 'samba at samba.org'
> Subject: RE: [Samba] Documentation / boolean fix for oplocks = command
> 
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> On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, WEBSTER, Greg wrote:
> 
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> > Absolutely sure. It didn't work at all with 'oplocks = no' (yep, we
> > restarted Samba). As soon as we changed it to 'oplocks = False' (and
> > restarted Samba) it worked flawlessly.
> > 
> > Stats: Samba v2.2.5, Redhat 7.2
> 
> What do the logs say though.  I mean is there an error 
> about an unknown parameter value?  or do you actually see smbd 
> giving out oplocks?
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> cheers, jerry
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