[Samba] Is Samba made for trash?!? Newp.

jra at dp.samba.org jra at dp.samba.org
Thu Feb 20 17:46:09 GMT 2003


On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 08:40:18AM -0800, Chris de Vidal wrote:
> To answer the root question (people have been
> answering your symptoms), no, Samba is not trash.
> 
> Like you, we needed to migrate from NetWare.  We had a
> serious problem with an undocumented oplock issue
> (search marc.theaimsgroup.com, for "How samba let us
> down"): oplocks corrupt very large flat database files
> which are being accessed by multiple clients.  We
> almost dropped Samba for good and went to NT but
> couldn't get the replacement NT server up in time.  By
> then, we discovered that if we disabled all oplocks,
> we got no more corruption.  It's a good thing we got
> it working in Samba, because apparently this is also a
> problem in NT.

Indeed. Samba behaves identically to a Windows server w.r.t.
oplocks. People migrating from NetWare to Samba get irritated
by this, but often don't realise it's because of issues with
the Windows SMB *client*, not the SMB server. The Windows
NetWare client apparently was rather better written.

Jeremy.


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