[Samba] new oplocks

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Wed Dec 28 20:23:18 GMT 2005


On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 02:01:51PM -0500, Ben Donnelly wrote:
> I noticed that the Release Notes for Samba 3.0.21 say that the oplock 
> implementation has been rewritten. And we seem to be having problems 
> with some .exe files we are sharing out as read-only shares. The shares 
> now only allow the first person to open the executable and run it. Other 
> users time out with a memory address error. Do I need to specify some 
> new oplock option for these shares now? I tried specifying *fake oplocks 
> = yes* on the share, but it didn't fix it. The same configuration 
> options allow multiple users on a server running 3.0.14

Our apologies. There was a bug we failed to find in the final 3.0.21
testing - we're going to have to do a 3.0.21a :-(. Jerry is working
on this now Volker has created the patch. I wish we'd caught this
before 3.0.21 :-(.

Jeremy.


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