[Samba] Microsoft Outlook pst files unable to open or create

[Doug Tucker]

Just to close this out for information purposes for anyone else that
runs into this looking for an answer, adding these 2 lines globally
fixed my issue.

posix locking = no
kernel oplocks = no

Sincerely,

Doug




On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 22:04 +0200, Michael Wood wrote:
> On 10 May 2011 21:14, Doug Tucker <tuckerd at lyle.smu.edu> wrote:
> > "Microsoft Outlook's personal folders (*.pst) react quite badly to
> > oplocks."
> >
> > This statement got to me.  So I created a share on the local drive of
> > the server and wallah..Outlook can write a .pst file.  So it has to do
> > with doing it over nfs.  I could understand this from an OS level, but I
> > cannot wrap my head around  why only outlook?  Every other application
> > works fine.
> 
> Re-exporting an NFS mount with Samba is asking for trouble.
> 
> See the following messages from some of the Samba developers:
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2007-February/129104.html
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2008-May/140374.html
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2008-July/142215.html
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2008-July/142131.html
> 
> Also:
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2008-January/137441.html
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2005-May/105986.html
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2008-July/142214.html
>