[Samba] User not reported on file locked message

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Tue Mar 8 02:19:51 GMT 2005


On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 02:17:17PM -1200, Bruce Hohl wrote:
> I have a very small problem.  Thanks for any suggestions.
> 
> Say user1 logs onto a Windows XP workstation and opens
> file1.  Then, if user2 attempts to open the file from
> another workstation the following message is displayed: 
> "file1 is locked for editing by ''" 
> 
> Problem: *user1* is not displayed between the single quotes.
> 
> However, say user1 logs onto a Win98 workstation and opens
> file1.  Then, if user2 attempts to open the file the
> expected message is displayed:  "file1 is locked for editing
> by 'user1'".
> 
> Maybe (?) this is related to the above problem:
> I have also noted that the smbstatus command always shows
> the text Machine name for Win98 clients but for WinXP
> clients only sometimes the text Machine name is shown, but
> usually the IP address is shown:

Can you send me an ethereal trace of this working to a Windows
server and another trace showing it failing to a Samba server.

I have a clue as to what this might be but need to see it :-).

Thanks,

	Jeremy.


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