[Samba] Re: oplock not working correctly

Iain iain at mein.it
Thu Apr 27 14:47:51 GMT 2006


Jeremy Allison wrote on 04/27/06 16:15 (US date format):
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 01:21:18PM +0200, Iain wrote:
>> I posted a problem with oplock previously, but am guessing it goto lost
>> in an earlier thread with the same subject line, so here goes another shot:
>>
>> Using Samba 3.0.22 on a Gentoo box (kernel 2.6.15) I've a situation
>> where file locking does not seem to be functioning as expected, in that
>> more than one user can open and write to a file without any
>> notifications being displayed about the file already being opened by
>> another user.
>>
>> In the debug output below I have two Windows XP clients accessing the
>> same shared file, neteng02 has the file open. neteng-vm3 then opens the
>> same file, receiving no warnings about the file being open by another
>> user. File is modified by neteng02 and saved and remains open. File then
>> modified by neteng-vm3 and saved. File closed and opened by neteng02 who
>> sees only modifications made by neteng-vm3.
> 
> Can you try adding "kernel oplocks = no" to the smb.conf ? I've had
> a report that the Fedora Core 5 kernel has broken kernel oplocks and
> I'm trying to find out if this is a Fedora specific problem or in the
> general kernel.org code.
> 
> Jeremy.

Okay, logged out, changed global config setting to "kernel oplocks =
no", restarted Samba and logged in again. Symptoms persist as before.

Would you like me to post another debug output from the two logfiles?

Regs.

Iain.


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