[Samba] Revit worksharing error

[Jon Gerdes]

Perttu

Are you able to try incremental upgrades?  For example 4.10.5 -> 4.11.last (test) -> 4.12.last (test.)  That might help
narrow down the problem to a particular version.  Then we can check out the changelogs.

Cheers
Jon



On Tue, 2021-03-09 at 12:20 +0200, Perttu Aaltonen via samba wrote:
> Hi Jon,
> 
> No other changes other than ugprading Ubuntu and Samba, smb.conf stayd the same.
> 
> I’m almost certain that if I contact Autodesk support they will say that Samba is untested and unsupported and they
> recommend using Windows Server. My hunch is that it’s some small compatibility difference that causes the problem. For
> example Revit expecting Windows ACLs but POSIX ACLs being in use right now, or some sort of locking issue. I’ll post
> an update if I find out more details.
> 
> -Perttu
> 
> > On 9. Mar 2021, at 11.51, Jon Gerdes via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Perttu
> > 
> > If you don't have problems with other file types then you probably ought to start with Autodesk for support - Revit
> > is
> > their product.  Of course if they diagnose an actual problem with Samba then we can try and help you with that.
> > 
> > By the way, any other changes apart from updating from a pretty old version of Samba?
> > 
> > Cheers
> > Jon
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 2021-03-09 at 10:00 +0200, Perttu Aaltonen via samba wrote:
> > > After updating Samba from 4.10.5 to 4.13.2 we are seeing errors when working with a Revit file saved on the Samba
> > > server.
> > > 
> > > For example:
> > > 
> > > “Data file [FILE] is corrupt and needs to be manually recovered.”
> > > “You cannot synchronize the central until the model is repaired.”
> > > 
> > > We tried disabling oplocks and SMB2 leases but those didn’t help. I’m starting to investigate further, but is
> > > anyone
> > > using Revit with Samba 4.13 and is it working for you?
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Perttu
> > 
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