[Samba] Re: Problems with Excel & MS Word files (EVEN - still ANY ideas?)

[Jeremy Allison]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 02:30:36PM -0500, Nathan Vidican wrote:
> Still experiencing two issues here; we get smbd processes that seem hung-out
> and climb to 99% CPU utilization... While there, the end-user's PC seems to
> spawn a new smbd process and cannot access the MS Office file (sometimes
> excel, sometimes word - even powerpoint this morning), stating it's locked
> for read only access. We manually do a kill, then a forced kill of the smbd
> process in question, and the office app actually then immediately crashes
> loosing any other documents open. So the second issue, is the locking up of
> end users' files.

Can you try this patch against 3.0.13 please ? It may be the problem you're
seeing.

Jeremy.

--- /home/jeremy/tmp/samba-3.0.13/source/smbd/dir.c     2005-03-23 12:30:27.000000000 -0800
+++ smbd/dir.c  2005-04-01 11:55:34.000000000 -0800
@@ -573,8 +573,6 @@
                }
        }
  
-       dptr->has_wild = True;
-
        /* In case sensitive mode we don't search - we know if it doesn't exist
           with a stat we will fail. */
  
@@ -584,6 +582,7 @@
                dptr->dir_hnd->offset = *poffset = -1;
                return NULL;
        } else {
+               dptr->has_wild = True;
                return dptr_normal_ReadDirName(dptr, poffset, pst);
        }
 }
@@ -602,7 +601,7 @@
                return False;
        }
  
-       while (SearchDir(dptr->dir_hnd, name, poffset) == True) {
+       if (SearchDir(dptr->dir_hnd, name, poffset)) {
                if (is_visible_file(dptr->conn, dptr->path, name, pst, True)) {
                        return True;
                }