[Samba] Excel "file may have been modified by another user since"with Samba 3.0.10

[David Landgren]

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 10:29:50 -0800, Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 06:02:41PM +0100, David Landgren wrote:
> > On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 11:24:00 -0500 (EST),
> > mrojava4 at eastgranby.k12.ct.us <mrojava4 at eastgranby.k12.ct.us> wrote:
> > > You may also want to read article 324491 at support.microsoft.com.  It
> > > applies to Excel 2002, but may be pertinent.
> >
> > Oops, I got the exact message wrong, I'll restate it here so that web
> > searches can find it:
> >
> > The file (foo.xls) may have been changed by another user since you last saved it
> >
> > Thanks for the link, it may indeed relate to my problem. Anyway, in
> > the meantime, while poring over samba logs, I found aawful hack, and
> > that is to add
> >
> >     veto oplock files = /*.xls/
> >
> > to the [globals] section of smb.conf. That's pretty suboptimal, but it
> > gets the users off my back. There must be a better way.
> 
> Yep there is - it's fixed in 3.0.11. Try the pre release if you need it
> now.
> 
> Jeremy.

Hello Jeremy,

thanks for the reply. I have installed 3.0.11pre1and it does appear to
have fixed the problem. I've backed out the veto parameter and Excel
continues to behave itself.

uname of the host:

SunOS jersey 5.9 Generic_112233-08 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-4

Thanks again,
David