[Samba] samba 3.0 doesn't lock Word files!!

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Thu Nov 27 18:09:35 GMT 2003


On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 05:44:24PM +0200, Vladuta Cristian wrote:
> 
> Dear All ,
> I am re-posting after a couple of weeks the following issue related to
> MS Word and Samba 3.0 hoping that this time somebody could help me
> unlock the mystery.  I have installed Samba 3.0 rpm on RH 9 and cannot
> get past an elementary file lock issue such as opening a file through MS
> WORD by multiple users from different MS workstations (w2k, XP,W98, etc)
> in concurrent sessions. Nobody gets that sort of warning  "  ..test.doc
> is already open by ...Do you want to make a copy?" . I tried every
> lock/oplocks feature, still with no positive results (starting from
> default settings, obviously).

This could be a bug we've fixed for 3.0.1. Can you try this with the
latest pre-release ?

Jeremy.



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