[Samba] dos application

[Helmut Hullen]

Hallo, Volker,

Du (Volker.Lendecke) meintest am 22.05.08:

>>> By few months I have some troubles with a network dos application.
>>> Precisely application, randomly, get errors referring to access
>>> denied to any shared files or path not found and crash.

>> Sounds like an "oplock" problem - I prefer setting all "oplock"
>> options to "no".

> Just to make sure: Generally disabling oplocks is not what I
> would recommend.

May be - I'm maintaining a school server which runs in some thousand  
schools, and disabling all oplocks is the most helpful way to avoid  
blocking the samba system (which most times needs a server restart to  
run again).

If you have a better way: no problem to change to this way.

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Samba 3.0.22 had few such problems (but not zero problems), and Samba  
3.0.28x seems to have few such problems too.

A colleague has developped a simple test mechanism: the (german) play  
"digdogs.exe" (a DOS game), lying on the server and run from many  
clients. If "oplock" is not set to "no" 10 clients can stop the server.

        http://helmut.hullen.de/filebox/spiele/

Viele Gruesse!
Helmut