[Samba] data corruption with ms-office files on samba 2.2.3a

[jra at dp.samba.org]

On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 05:39:41PM +0200, alexander.notz at starmobility.net wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> sometimes a ms-office file (ms word 2k, ms excel 2k) will be destroyed,
> when the client writes it to the server. The strange thing is, that samba
> writes parts of its log-files at the top and bottom of the file. Here are
> the first 2 lines of the destroyed file:
> 
> [2002/09/04 17:03:05, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(216)
>   tb opened file xxx/xx/xx/xxxx/xx xx/filename_TB.doc read=Yes write=Yes
> (numopen=2)
> 
> at the bottom samba writes a few times this:
> 
> [2002/09/04 17:03:28, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(216)
> <path and filename>
> [2002/09/04 17:03:28, 2] smbd/close.c:close_normal_file(212)
> <path and filename>
> 
> Does anybody know this problem or is it fixed in 2.2.5 ?

Can you post your smb.conf file please, I want to check if
you have the write cache enabled.

Jeremy.