[Samba] Samba File Locking Problem

[Cameron B. Prince]

Hi Sascha,

You nailed it... My problem is solved. I don't understand why that would be
desired behavior, but regardless, it's fixed now.

Thank you very much,
Cameron

> I don't know what kind of programm you're running, but I had 
> nearly the problem. I solved it by turning of the oplocks for 
> this share.
> 
> Try in the share:
> 
> [C]
> 	comment = C On Doveserver
> 	path = /mnt/samba
> 	public = yes
> 	writable = yes
> 	create mask = 0775
> 	inherit permissions = yes
>         oplocks = No
>         level2 oplocks = No
> 
> Greetings
> 
> Sascha
> 
> Am Donnerstag, 25. März 2004 17:35 schrieb Cameron B. Prince:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a situation in the office where I temporarily need 
> to provide 
> > additional clients access to a share on a Windows 2000 
> Professional box.
> > 2000 Pro seems to only allow 5 clients to connect to a 
> share and there 
> > is no faclity to allow more as best I can tell. Upgrading 
> isn't really 
> > an option and as I said, this is a temporary need.
> >
> > I have a linux box as a gateway so I decided to map the 
> share from the 
> > windows box to it via smbmount, then reshare that mount via samba. 
> > Then I could point the extra clients to the linux box which would 
> > effectively be transparently be connecting them to the windows box.
> >
> > It works and works well, but I have hit one snag.
> >
> > Each client runs a program that creates files on the share. 
> A program 
> > is running on the windows box that scans this directory and 
> moves the 
> > files to another directory for processing. When clients connected 
> > directly to the windows share create the files, they are moved and 
> > everything works as intended. When clients connect to the windows 
> > share via linux create the files, the program on the 
> windows box crashes.
> >
> > I found that this is caused by the client maintaining a lock on the 
> > file after it's created. If I stop the program on the windows box, 
> > make the client create the file, shutdown the client, then 
> start the 
> > program on the windows box, everything is fine.
> >
> > I've also confirmed I can't move or rename the files manually until 
> > the client that created them is shutdown.
> >
> > What can I do to keep this lock from being maintained?
> >
> >
> > Here's the line from fstab that mounts the share on the linux box:
> >
> > //doveserver/c /mnt/samba smbfs
> > uid=500,gid=500,username=user1,password=user1,rw 0 0
> >
> > User 500 is florist.
> >
> > Here's permissions on /mnt/samba:
> >
> > drwxr-xr-x   1 florist florist 4096 Mar 18 15:32 samba
> >
> > Here's the share definition from smb.conf:
> >
> > [C]
> >    comment = C On Doveserver
> >    path = /mnt/samba
> >    public = yes
> >    writable = yes
> >    create mask = 0775
> >    inherit permissions = yes
> >
> >
> > Any help or ideas would certainly be appreciated.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Cameron
>