[Samba] Microsoft Outlook pst files unable to open or create
L.P.H. van Belle
belle at bazuin.nl
Tue May 10 09:15:59 MDT 2011
Hai Doug,
The settings i suggested are for 3.5.x, they does not exist in 3.0
The "upgrade" problems are not really upgrade problems, but security fixes
and
new parameters in samba.
Im not a centos user but i'll try to help.
what you can do before the samba upgrade.
on the old server
testparm -v > old.txt
and on the new server.
testparm -v > new.txt
diff old.txt new.txt | less
and compair.
The problems can come from the kernel.
If the 2.6.18 = 2.6.32+ then it could be.
cifs, locking etc has changed in the kernel.
so in the diff look first for the locking parameters with the diff.
i suggest looking here also.
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/locking.html
search for Samba Oplocks Control
Microsoft Outlook's personal folders (*.pst) react quite badly to oplocks.
If in doubt, disable oplocks and tune your system from that point.
so you can try that.
good luck,
Louis
>-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>Van: Doug Tucker [mailto:tuckerd at lyle.smu.edu]
>Verzonden: 2011-05-10 17:03
>Aan: L.P.H. van Belle
>CC: samba at lists.samba.org
>Onderwerp: Re: [Samba] Microsoft Outlook pst files unable to
>open or create
>
>I am using the kernel supplied by centos for 5.5. There is an updated
>kernel that came out last week, I just haven't/can't reboot the box to
>get it running. But the other is not *old*, the upstream release of
>what I am currently running is late March 2011. Remember, RedHat ports
>things of newer kernels into the release level number of the existing
>ones. So a 2.6.18 kernel is not really a 2.6.18 kernel, it's within a
>patch level or 2 of being up to date with the official kernel from
>kernel.org. Them keeping the package numbers the same and
>adding a .0.3
>etc to the end of it is things of many discussions good and bad.
>
>What "upgrade" problems are you referring to? Our centos4 server has
>and continues to have zero issues whatsoever. The ONLY reason for
>upgrading at all was the hardware is 4 years old and wanted to
>get it on
>newer hardware. While I was upgrading anyway, I chose to go with
>centos5 because 4 is officially unsupported by RedHat
>(retiring, no more
>patch releases) next February, so an upgrade would be necessary in a
>year or so anyway.
>
>As of yum update last night, I am now already officially
>packaged centos
>5.6:
>
>cat /etc/redhat-release
>CentOS release 5.6 (Final)
>
>
>The new kernel installed is:
>
>kernel-2.6.18-238.9.1.el5 (note, same kernel version number, but went
>from .238.5 to .238.9).
>
>I have 20 users or so with multiple mounts currently on it. It's going
>to be tough to get the downtime to upgrade to samba 3.5. I will put in
>the request for downtime now though and we'll see. However,
>the centos4
>box is running 3.0 also, and again, does not experience this issue.
>
>Question. The smb.conf settings you suggest. Are these things I can
>set in the current 3.0 or are they 3.5 only settings. And, all shares
>are nfs mounted on the backend, is it ok to put the other 2 in
>global or
>do I have to edit that in all 50 or so shares plus user homes?
>
>Thanks so much for your effort here, I can't tell you how much it is
>appreciated. I have done everything I could think of for 2 weeks to no
>avail.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Doug
>
>
>On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 16:33 +0200, L.P.H. van Belle wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> so your running centos 5.5. with outdated kernel in 64bit,
>with old samba.
>> 3.0 of red hat..
>> aargg..
>>
>> i suggest, upgrade to samba 3.3 from centos and use the
>kernel suppied by
>> centos for 5.5.
>> I cant beleave that 2.6.18 is the "official" kernel of
>centos 5.5. lots has
>> changed.
>>
>> also i'm betting your doing this because of the "upgrade" problems..
>> ( as i had )
>>
>> but even better.
>>
>> upgrade your server to centos 5.6
>> install samba 3.5.4 from centos.
>> use the kernel from centos 5.6 ( i guess 2.6.32+ kernel)
>>
>> Use these settings in samba.
>> in [global]
>> host msdfs = No
>> unix extensions = No
>>
>> set these settings on the share with the nfs mounted folder.
>> ## share options, not for global.
>> # wide links = yes
>> # follow symlinks = yes
>>
>>
>> Your mixing lots of old things here and that makes it hard
>to diagnose.
>>
>> Louis
>>
>>
>>
>> >-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>> >Van: Doug Tucker [mailto:tuckerd at lyle.smu.edu]
>> >Verzonden: 2011-05-10 16:23
>> >Aan: L.P.H. van Belle
>> >CC: samba at lists.samba.org
>> >Onderwerp: Re: [Samba] Microsoft Outlook pst files unable to
>> >open or create
>> >
>> >Louis,
>> >
>> >A uname of the new server:
>> >uname -a
>> >Linux xxxxxx 2.6.18-238.5.1.el5 #1 SMP Fri Apr 1 18:41:58 EDT 2011
>> >x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>> >
>> >I'm still running the 3.0 packaged binaries from Centos (redhat
>> >derivative):
>> >
>> >rpm -qa | grep samba
>> >samba-common-3.0.33-3.29.el5_6.2
>> >samba-client-3.0.33-3.29.el5_6.2
>> >samba-3.0.33-3.29.el5_6.2
>> >
>> >
>> >Yes, our samba server mounts a file server over NFS...both
>of them do.
>> >
>> >Sincerely,
>> >
>> >Doug
>> >
>> >
>> >On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 16:19 +0200, L.P.H. van Belle wrote:
>> >> Hello Doug,
>> >>
>> >> I was running 3.0 before, recently upgraded to 3.5.6
>> >> kernel 2.6.26 also to 2.6.32
>> >>
>> >> I had no problems after the upgrade with outlook.
>> >> There were settings changed in samba, because of security issues.
>> >>
>> >> are the pst file on nfs mounted folder of something like that.
>> >>
>> >> Which kernel are you running?
>> >>
>> >> Best regards,
>> >>
>> >> Louis
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> >-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>> >> >Van: Doug Tucker [mailto:tuckerd at lyle.smu.edu]
>> >> >Verzonden: 2011-05-10 16:11
>> >> >Aan: L.P.H. van Belle
>> >> >CC: samba at lists.samba.org
>> >> >Onderwerp: Re: [Samba] Microsoft Outlook pst files unable to
>> >> >open or create
>> >> >
>> >> >Thanks Louis. I indeed have a samba 3.0.x server on Centos
>> >> >4.8 that has
>> >> >no issues either. The newly deployed Centos 5.5 with samba
>> >> >3.0.x is the
>> >> >one Outlook cannot write to (yet other office applicatioins can).
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 16:08 +0200, L.P.H. van Belle wrote:
>> >> >> Im running samba 3.5.6 ( debian ) with outlook 2003 pst in
>> >> >my users home
>> >> >> folder, in hidden folder ( .email )
>> >> >> no probems here, not even with the 4GB + pst files.. :-S
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Greetz,
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Louis
>> >> >> >-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>> >> >> >Van: tuckerd at lyle.smu.edu
>> >> >> >[mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org] Namens Doug Tucker
>> >> >> >Verzonden: 2011-05-10 16:02
>> >> >> >Aan: mueller at tropenklinik.de
>> >> >> >CC: samba at lists.samba.org
>> >> >> >Onderwerp: Re: [Samba] Microsoft Outlook pst files unable to
>> >> >> >open or create
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >Thank you for the reply, I was starting to think no one was
>> >> >out there!
>> >> >> >An rpm query shows these packages:
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >rpm -qa | grep samba
>> >> >> >samba-common-3.0.33-3.29.el5_6.2
>> >> >> >samba-client-3.0.33-3.29.el5_6.2
>> >> >> >samba-3.0.33-3.29.el5_6.2
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >Based on the fact that other apps have no problem, it
>points to
>> >> >> >something weird with Outlook, BUT...outlook has no
>> >problem whatsover
>> >> >> >with the other samba server..that's what throws me for a loop!
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 08:47 +0200, Daniel Müller wrote:
>> >> >> >> What is your samba ver. Number????
>> >> >> >> Do you use exchange??
>> >> >> >> There are the same error like yours with ost files
>and caching.
>> >> >> >> This seems a bug in outlook(2007-2010) not in samba!??
>> >> >> >> I myself have a small group of Outlook-xp-pst files
>on samba
>> >> >> >3.5.8 without
>> >> >> >> any errors. I have
>> >> >> >> a redirection of domain-users to samba home share.
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> -----------------------------------------------
>> >> >> >> EDV Daniel Müller
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> Leitung EDV
>> >> >> >> Tropenklinik Paul-Lechler-Krankenhaus
>> >> >> >> Paul-Lechler-Str. 24
>> >> >> >> 72076 Tübingen
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> Tel.: 07071/206-463, Fax: 07071/206-499
>> >> >> >> eMail: mueller at tropenklinik.de
>> >> >> >> Internet: www.tropenklinik.de
>> >> >> >> -----------------------------------------------
>> >> >> >> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> >> >> >> Von: samba-bounces at lists.samba.org
>> >> >> >[mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org] Im
>> >> >> >> Auftrag von Doug Tucker
>> >> >> >> Gesendet: Montag, 9. Mai 2011 16:05
>> >> >> >> An: samba at lists.samba.org
>> >> >> >> Betreff: [Samba] Microsoft Outlook pst files unable to
>> >> >open or create
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> All,
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> I sent a message for help a couple of weeks ago about a
>> >> >> >samba migration
>> >> >> >> issue. With further testing, we have isolated the issue
>> >> >to Microsoft
>> >> >> >> Outlook (versions 2007 and 2010). All other applications
>> >> >> >have no issues
>> >> >> >> when they mount the new samba server reading, writing,
>> >> >etc. But, in
>> >> >> >> Outlook, when you try to open an archive (pst file) on
>> >> >the new samba
>> >> >> >> server, it pops up an error "the file is already in use by
>> >> >> >the maximum
>> >> >> >> number of applications. Close some of these applications
>> >> >> >and try again.
>> >> >> >> You may need to restart your computer." Nothing esle has
>> >> >> >the file open.
>> >> >> >> So to test, we tried to create a new archive file
>that does not
>> >> >> >> currently exist on the server, and it gives you the same
>> >> >> >error and fails
>> >> >> >> to create the file. If we unmount from the new
>samba server
>> >> >> >to the old
>> >> >> >> one, it can create it just fine. Please help
>anyone, I'm at
>> >> >> >a complete
>> >> >> >> loss where to go from here!
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> Sincerely,
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> Doug Tucker
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >
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