[Samba] Shared file (.xls) not giving "File In Use" message
Drav Sloan
holborn-samba at real-life.tm
Fri Aug 27 06:22:15 MDT 2010
Hi all,
I'm in the process of migrating an old aging NT4 server shares to
a samba server (compiled from source, version 3.5.4 on an Ubuntu 10.04
server). The vast majority of permissions, acls and behaviour 'issues'
I've managed to overcome with various settings on the shares - I think
Samba does an awesome job of a file server replacement.
However on the testing phase I've come across an issue which is
considered a "show stopper". On the old NT file server if a 2nd
person attempts to open a file already being edited elsewhere that
user gets a "File In Use" dialogue which the users in the office use
extensively. However when I try the same operation on the new shiny
Samba server the 2nd file opens with no warning but in read only mode
(which is not deemed an exceptable 'replacement' to the old behaviour).
Is this intended default behaviour or have I missed a compile/config
option? I've tried fiddling about with setting oplocks, level 2 oplocks
and a few other settings and always see the same behaviour. Google-Fu
seems to show up the opposite to the issue ("File In Use" dialogues
when there is no 'lock' in place).
I have it as part of the NT4 domain with security = DOMAIN, and I
can set permissions and so on the unix side no problem (the files
are presently owned by DOMAIN\Administrator and Default Group
DOMAIN\Domain Users. So all seems fine.
The share in question has:
[Public]
comment = Public Share
path = /home/shares/Public
read only = No
create mask = 0770
directory mask = 0770
map acl inherit = Yes
smbclient shows:
Samba version 3.5.4
PID Username Group Machine
-------------------------------------------------------------------
14252 davids domain users davids (10.1.129.211)
14259 dravtest domain users dougpc (10.2.1.227)
Service pid machine Connected at
-------------------------------------------------------
Public 14252 davids Fri Aug 27 12:43:54 2010
Public 14259 dougpc Fri Aug 27 12:57:57 2010
Locked files:
Pid Uid DenyMode Access R/W Oplock SharePath Name Time
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
14259 15003 DENY_NONE 0x100081 RDONLY NONE /home/shares/Public . Fri Aug 27 12:57:57 2010
14252 15000 DENY_NONE 0x100081 RDONLY NONE /home/shares/Public . Fri Aug 27 12:43:54 2010
Any thoughts on this?
Sorry if I ask the sort of question that's been asked before, but
google/ the last 5 months of this mailing list and the docs all have
shown up nothing!
Regards
D.
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