[Samba] having issues with shares

[Donny Brooks]

 Everything oplocks related has been disabled. Still the same issue. There have been no updates to the software as the GIS guy or I would have had to applied them. Also on the old domain it created the lock files also but it worked. Thanks for the quick replies.
 
 
On Friday, February 8, 2013 03:17 PM CST, Edward Ashley <ned at redmonkeysoftware.com> wrote: 
 
> I second disabling oplocks however I would check whether they have had any
> software updates or anything to change their GIS software as I'm not too
> sure that an oplock would create a .lock file, and it sounds like it maybe
> the GIS software doing that.
> 
> 
> On 8 February 2013 20:56, Donny Brooks <dbrooks at mdah.state.ms.us> wrote:
> 
> > We recently migrated our install from an ancient fedora 11 install of
> > samba and openldap to a centos 6.3 setup with its openldap and samba. The
> > domain has been totally recreated from scratch as the person that did the
> > previous setup has not been employed here in many years. After fighting
> > with shares for a while we mostly got them fixed and working. However the
> > biggest issue now is when our GIS people try to connect to their samba
> > share. Previously two pople could be editing different feature classes,
> > different files, but now it will not let the second person do anything but
> > view. Here is a brief explanation from our head GIS guy:
> >
> > We currently have 5 data sets in one feature class in the GIS.
> >
> > site_point
> > site_poly
> > survey_point
> > survey_line
> > survey_poly
> >
> > Before the conversion to the new Domain:
> >
> > User A could open up the GIS on computer 1 and begin to edit one of the
> > data set. (site_point for example) and User B could open up the GIS on
> > computer 2 and begin to edit any other data set  except what User A was
> > editing (in this example site_point).  As long a two people didn't try and
> > edit the same data set it worked.
> >
> > After the Domain conversion:
> >
> > User A opens up the GIS on computer 1 and begins to edit any of our data
> > sets. User B opens up the GIS on computer 2 and attempts to edit any of our
> > data sets a window opens up with several errors about  file locks.  ( I can
> > send up screen shots in the morning)  As we saw in the samba logs it
> > appears that once User A begins editing the one data set all the other data
> > sets in the feature class get .lock files along with the one that User A is
> > actually editing.  The only way User B can edit data is if User A exits the
> > GIS completely.
> >
> >
> > So with that we have been trying everything we can think of to get it
> > working correctly again. When I setup the share I copied the existing share
> > from the old domain and put it in the new one making only the domain name
> > change to the section.
> >
> > Here is the old setup:
> >
> > [pictures]
> >         comment = Shared Folder for Pictures
> >         path = /samba/pictures
> >         read only = No
> >         create mask = 0667
> >         directory mask = 0770
> >         csc policy = disable
> >         nt acl support = no
> >         force security mode = 777
> >         valid users = @hpres
> >         force group = @ADMIN\hpres
> >         #inherit permissions = yes
> >         write list = @ADMIN\hpres
> >
> > Here is the new:
> >
> > [hp-pictures]
> >         comment = Shared Folder for Historic Preservation Pictures
> >         path = /samba/arrowhead/hp-pictures
> >         read only = No
> >         create mask = 0667
> >         directory mask = 0770
> >         csc policy = disable
> >         nt acl support = no
> >         force security mode = 777
> >         valid users = @hpres
> >         force group = @MDAH\hpres
> >         write list = @MDAH\hpres
> >
> > Anyone have an idea why this could be happening?
> >
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> >
> > Donny B.
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Donny B.