[Samba] Oplocks problem

[Baxter Shepperson]

Dominic Saindon wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I use version 2.2.2 of Samba on Solaris 8 and I have the following problem:
>>From a working station which uses a connection modem (56 kbps) towards the
>server to reach to a network drive and with the following configuration
>under smb.conf:
>[dgui]
>        comment = mir:/grp/in4mix/DGUI
>        path = /grp/in4mix/DGUI
>        valid users = @in4mix
>        force group = in4mix
>        read only = No
>        create mask = 0775
>        directory mask = 0775
>        oplocks = No
>
>A file of 6k on the server is transferred with 300k additional when
>OPLOCKS=NO. But when OPLOCKS=YES, there is really 6k transferred.
>How can I regulate this problem to use option OPLOCKS=NO but what the
>transfer is faster?
>Thanks.
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>Dominic Saindon
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>
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>  
>
  I get the same problem on my home network w/ an HP Laserjet.  Worked 
fine but I commented out the line anyway.  No change whatsoever.  I'd 
leave it alone if it works on an enterprise network, if I were you.