Corrupted Excel files, oplock_break(905) errors

[Cole, Timothy D.]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Nicolas Williams [SMTP:Nicolas.Williams at wdr.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, October 21, 1999 15:41
> To:	Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-TECHNICAL
> Subject:	Re: Corrupted Excel files, oplock_break(905) errors
> 
> I've still not seen a complete, correct analysis of why the Solaris
> kernel and smbd fail to notice the dead TCP connection and myself and
> others have speculated here before about the source of the bug (NT?
> Solaris?). At any rate, the preexec/postexec stale smbd detector script
> that I use does the trick.
> 
	IIRC, the NT4 TCP/IP stack fails to send FIN when the connection is
closed.