FW: [Samba] oplock break on excel files using samba 2.2.4

[Jeremy Allison]

On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 10:15:38AM -0400, Tony Nichols wrote:
> I'm having the same kind of problem too. Links to other excel workbooks
> are really breaking badly. One of them so bad that if I highlight the
> file through a windows explorer view; it kills the window immediately.
> I'm using RH 7.2 and Samba 2.2.4 -1
> 
> Please let me know if someone has some suggestions ....
> So far I've tried:
>  veto oplock files = /*.mdb/*.MDB/*.ldb/*.LDB/*.xls/*.XLS

It looks like this may have been a Samba problem interacting
with the Linux 2.4.x kernel shipped in RedHat 7.x. We have
fixed this for Samba 2.2.5, and Jerry is about to issue a
pre-release rpm you might want to test with.

Cheers,

        Jeremy.