[Samba] Outlook pst errors on samba share

[rruegner]

first check if there is no other process ( outlook )
to the pst file,
catching pst files is an exclusiv act.
If you have any open connect relate to that pst, any other client will fail
to open.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <daniel.jarboe at custserv.com>
To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 6:40 PM
Subject: [Samba] Outlook pst errors on samba share


> A user has recently moved his .pst file onto a samba shared
> folder for testing, but he is seeing the following error message
> on a samba 2.2.8a installation (linux/s390 SuSE SLES8):
>
> "Can't open this item.  The file z:\Personal Folders.pst could
> not be accessed because another workstation has modified it.
> Close and then restart all mail-enabled applications."
>
> Has anyone else seen this?
>
> Periodically, I see 4 lines like this in his machine log
> (domain and user sanitized):
>
> [2003/12/05 11:59:53, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(247)
>   {USER} opened file Personal Folders.pst read=Yes write=No (numopen=2)
> [2003/12/05 11:59:53, 2] smbd/close.c:close_normal_file(229)
>   {DOMAIN}\{USER} closed file Personal Folders.pst (numopen=1)
> [2003/12/05 11:59:53, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(247)
>   {USER} opened file Personal Folders.pst read=Yes write=No (numopen=2)
> [2003/12/05 11:59:53, 2] smbd/close.c:close_normal_file(229)
>   {DOMAIN}\{USER} closed file Personal Folders.pst (numopen=1)
>
> This is on an ext3 filesystem mounted (rw,acl,quota).
>
> This user is the only one that has opened this file according
> to the level 2 logs.
>
> Smbstatus for that file shows:
> DenyMode: DENY_WRITE
> Access: 0x2019f
> R/W: RDWR
> Oplock: None
>
> I have the following global options in my smb.conf because in the past I
> heard of problems without them.  Is it likely that one of these is the
> root of the errors?
> # grep lock /etc/samba/smb.conf
>         kernel oplocks = No
>         blocking locks = No
>         locking = No
>         oplocks = No
>         level2 oplocks = No
>
> Thanks for any help,
> ~ Daniel
>
>
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