oplock_break: client failure in break ? / files locked forever(?)

[Martin Bahlinger]

> > > oplock_break: client failure in oplock break in file
> >
> > Finally we found that no rpc.statd was running on the system and
> > after installing it everything was fine.
>
> Isnt rpc.statd only used for NFS locking stuff?

Ok, you're right. The home shares being exported by samba are on NFS
filesystems here.

> > Curiously the problem occured only with MS-Office files as in your
> > example above.
>
> We also had it with Netscape (and maybe others),

Exactly, Netscape also. And sometimes a simple mouseclick in
Windows-Explorer let it freeze.


bye
  Martin