[Samba] Office products Locking issues
Marcello Romani
mromani at ottotecnica.com
Mon Mar 19 07:32:48 GMT 2007
Michael Heydon ha scritto:
>
>>
>> In the past months I had similar locking problems: outlook running on
>> a client PC, outlook.pst file stored on a (private) network share. The
>> client PC would sometimes hang, and the user would then reboot the PC.
>> After the reboot, Outlook complained that the outlook.pst file could
>> not be opened because it was already locked by someone else (in fact
>> it was the "old" smbd process of that same user that didn't notice the
>> client did reboot).
>> The solution was always to manually kill (-TERM) the "hanging" smbd
>> process.
>> The situation got a bit better when I disabled oplocks entirely, but I
>> still get that error sometimes (yes, we *almost* fixed the PC hardware
>> issues :-).
>>
> Just as a note, MS don't recommend storing PST files on a network and
> from personal experience I tend to agree. Some times it's the lesser of
The company I work for has had pst files on a network share for many
years now (on a win2k server and, since about 1 year, that is since I
came, on a gentoo/samba server). I still haven't seen any problems (a
part from the mentioned pc freezing issues), but our network and servers
have a very low load...
> two evils but in the long term you might want to think about a different
> solution.
I've been thinking about implementing an imap server for some time
now... I hope I'll have time to get rid of "personal stored" e-mail as
soon as possibile...
>> Did you have some PC-freeze problems that the "reset on zero vc"
>> config parameter solved ?
> We didn't have problems with freezing, we had problems with the network.
> It had the same effect, the client disconnected, the server thought it
> was still there.
>
>> Did the use of this parameter have some drawbacks ?
> It hasn't caused any problems that I'm aware of and it has reduced the
> number of support calls, but I wouldn't consider it an alternative to
> fixing the root of the problem.
>
> I believe it does cause problems if you have multiple connections coming
> into the server from behind a NAT connection and it may also play up if
> you have a terminal server.
We don't have neither of the two, so I guess I'll be safe :-)
>
> Overall I think it is a neat option and in most simple networks it is
> worth having, just be wary that it may hide problems that will bite you
> down the track.
>
> -- Michael Heydon
>
>
Thank you for your reply. It was helpful.
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Marcello Romani
Responsabile IT
Ottotecnica s.r.l.
http://www.ottotecnica.com
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