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

[John Drescher]

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 3:14 PM, 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.
>
A pst file is a type of database file.

John