[Samba] Disabling locking for DLL files

Adam Nielsen adam.nielsen at uq.edu.au
Thu Feb 16 04:34:33 GMT 2006


> I'm trying to run a program off a network drive, however it insists on
> locking the DLL files it loads, so that no other process can access
> them (even read-only.)  This means that only one person can run the
> program at a time, as opposed to the entire office running it at the
> same time.

Well, interestingly enough, it seems that adding this line to the share
section was enough:

  veto oplock files = /*.dll/

I didn't have to mess with the 'share modes' after all, which was good!

Cheers,
Adam.


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