Re: [Samba] using VSS on a samba server - no smb locks ?
- Original Message - From: Jeremy Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Nir Livni [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Jeremy Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 10:25 PM Subject: Re: [Samba] using VSS on a samba server - no smb locks ? On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 10:13:55PM +0200, Nir Livni wrote: Well, actually all oplocks where turned off in my smb.conf. I tried to checkin and checkout some files with few users, but no SMBlocks. Using samba-2.2.8a (I forgot to mention) No lockingX calls ? There are several possible locking calls. Or maybe the app does some higher level synchronisation. VSS has a lock_mode parameter, that has two modes. Native / FileLock. Both of them achieve the same result - locking database files for synchronization. The testlock utility was ment to help administrators to deteremine whether their file system supports the Native lock mode. If the test fails - they have to use FileLock lockmode. Testlock generates a lockingX transaction (are there any other smb locking transactions ?), which means that the lockingX is the way to get a native lock in VSS. FileLock lock mode simply creates files (.lck) in the locks folder of the database, to mark locks. When the file is deleted - lock is removed. I am not saying that there is a samba problem here. I just think that the fact that testlock.exe uses lockingX, but the clients of VSS do not use lockingX, show that there may be a configuration problem, which I am trying to solve. Nir Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] using VSS on a samba server - no smb locks ?
Hi all, We are considering moving our VSS database from a Win2K server to a samba server. All clients are Win2K clients. I used the VSS tool testlock.exe to make sure the native lock mode can be used. The test was successful, and I saw that an SMBlock transaction was performed, and a reply_lockingX was replied. When I opened a VSS database on the samba server and started to use it - I saw no SMBlock operations. Doesn't make sence to me, because some kind of locking must be done. Any ideas ? Thanks, Nir -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] using VSS on a samba server - no smb locks ?
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 03:08:21PM +0200, Nir Livni wrote: Hi all, We are considering moving our VSS database from a Win2K server to a samba server. All clients are Win2K clients. I used the VSS tool testlock.exe to make sure the native lock mode can be used. The test was successful, and I saw that an SMBlock transaction was performed, and a reply_lockingX was replied. When I opened a VSS database on the samba server and started to use it - I saw no SMBlock operations. Doesn't make sence to me, because some kind of locking must be done. Did you only test with one user ? Is so, an oplock will cause no locking attempts to be seen on the wire (the client redirector optimises them out when it has an oplock). Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] using VSS on a samba server - no smb locks ?
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 03:08:21PM +0200, Nir Livni wrote: Hi all, We are considering moving our VSS database from a Win2K server to a samba server. All clients are Win2K clients. I used the VSS tool testlock.exe to make sure the native lock mode can be used. The test was successful, and I saw that an SMBlock transaction was performed, and a reply_lockingX was replied. When I opened a VSS database on the samba server and started to use it - I saw no SMBlock operations. Doesn't make sence to me, because some kind of locking must be done. Did you only test with one user ? Is so, an oplock will cause no locking attempts to be seen on the wire (the client redirector optimises them out when it has an oplock). Well, actually all oplocks where turned off in my smb.conf. I tried to checkin and checkout some files with few users, but no SMBlocks. Using samba-2.2.8a (I forgot to mention) Nir Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] using VSS on a samba server - no smb locks ?
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 10:13:55PM +0200, Nir Livni wrote: Well, actually all oplocks where turned off in my smb.conf. I tried to checkin and checkout some files with few users, but no SMBlocks. Using samba-2.2.8a (I forgot to mention) No lockingX calls ? There are several possible locking calls. Or maybe the app does some higher level synchronisation. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
