[Samba] Samba - Oplocks = no

David Brodbeck DavidB at mail.interclean.com
Thu May 13 16:26:57 GMT 2004



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Allison [mailto:jra at samba.org]

> Yes they plague Windows fileservers as well. Search in MSDN for
> knowledge base articles relating to turning off oplocks in
> data-critical situations (ie. when you care about files not
> being corrupted :-).

I ended up doing this on one of our NT 4.0 servers to keep Peachtree
Accounting happy.  The real bummer is that you can't veto oplocks for
specific files or shares under NT like you can with Samba -- they're either
all on, or all off.


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