[Samba] Re: URGENT!!!!! Problem: outlook.pst with samba 3.0.21c!!!!!!!!

[Robert Schetterer]

Hi Joerg,
pst are a special kind of files, and its not not recommended hosting 
them on network shares, see technet, cause they get corupted
But i know many people do it.
So keep clear that the psts are not growing very large ( under 1G is ok 
) stop any vfs antivir at the pst shares,
play with lock parameters.
i have one costumer who is hosting his pst on network shares with samba
3.0.14 and there is no bug with it.
I dont have testet it with latest samba.
But i am nearly sure this is not a samba problem,
i recommend you install a kolab server which works nice to outlook.
pst where never thought to be hosted on networks.
For testing copy a working pst file to the place ( share ) where the not 
working one is hosted and try to open it, if this works you know the pst 
got corupted , there are a few tools by ms  to reconstruct such files ( 
search technet ) but do it by copy them to a local client.
In your scenario you should have daily backups of the psts anyway
But i read a lot about problems with solaris samba , maybe the bug is 
only in solaris samba, as workaournd switch back to former samba version
Best Regards


Jörg Nissen schrieb:
> You should give us a look at your smb.conf. AFAIK from my very own 
> experience: 3.0.21c somehow behaves different from 3.0.20 with the same 
> smb.conf. Maybe you have to set some values which did not have to be set 
> before.
> 
> MfG
> Jörg Nissen
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "WolverineJR" <jreitwiessner at samson.de>
> Newsgroups: mailing.unix.samba
> Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 9:40 AM
> Subject: URGENT!!!!! Problem: outlook.pst with samba 3.0.21c!!!!!!!!
> 
> 
> Hello Samba-Gurus!!
> 
> Following really really important problem:
> 
> Yesterday evening, we have upgraded our Solaris9-Samba-Fileserver from
> Samba-Version 3.0.11 to 3.0.21c. All worked fine.
> But today, we have following problem:
> 
> Some users, which outook.pst-file is situated on the samba-fileserver
> in their home-share, cannot send or get mails via Outlook2000 und
> Outlook2003.
> When we try to change the path to the PST-file, we get the messages,
> that the file cannot be accessed.
> 
> Here is a sample of the samba-log of one of the clients:
> 
> [2006/03/10 07:39:03, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(70)
>  unix_mode(outlook.pst) inheriting from .
> [2006/03/10 07:39:03, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(78)
>  unix_mode(outlook.pst) inherit mode 40700
> [2006/03/10 07:39:03, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(350)
>  abm opened file outlook.pst read=Yes write=No (numopen=2)
> [2006/03/10 07:39:03, 2] smbd/close.c:close_normal_file(308)
>  FRANKFURT+abm closed file outlook.pst (numopen=1)
> [2006/03/10 07:39:03, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(70)
>  unix_mode(outlook.pst) inheriting from .
> [2006/03/10 07:39:03, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(78)
>  unix_mode(outlook.pst) inherit mode 40700
> [2006/03/10 07:39:03, 2] smbd/open.c:open_file(350)
>  abm opened file outlook.pst read=Yes write=No (numopen=2)
> [2006/03/10 07:39:03, 2] smbd/close.c:close_normal_file(308)
>  FRANKFURT+abm closed file outlook.pst (numopen=1)
> [2006/03/10 07:39:03, 2] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(70)
> 
> What here stand out is, that samba try to open the outlook.pst - file
> with READ=YES and WRITE=NO... this can not be right
> 
> Another thing is, that after the samba-upgrade, we don´t get the
> absolut pathes from the opened files in samba. In SWAT we only get
> something like: outlook/outlook.pst
> Normally it should look like: /homes/xxx/outlook/outlook.pst
> 
> Does have anybody a solution or idea??
> 
> THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT!!!!
> 
> THX!!!!
> 
>