Re: [Samba] Windows 98 caching too much

2007-02-28 Thread Alex Satrapa
On 23/02/2007, at 14:51 , Daniel O'Connor wrote: We have an old Win98 box at work that is used for programming GALs and EEPROMs, however we find that if the file is modified on the Unix side the Win98 box doesn't notice. This is rather annoying when you are iterating a design as you can

Re: [Samba] Windows 98 caching too much

2007-02-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Saturday 24 February 2007 10:18, Rashkae wrote: One work around is to open a DOS box and 'type' the file - this seems to force it to re-get the file. You didn't specify what kind of Unix your Unix Side is. There's some special kernel magic required for Unix Kernel and Oplocks to

Re: [Samba] Windows 98 caching too much

2007-02-26 Thread Rashkae
Daniel O'Connor wrote: I don't believe the person is modifying the file behind Samba's back. They're using Windows to edit the file so it should work fine. Then you'll have to explain this in more detail: however we find that if the file is modified on the Unix side the Win98 box

Re: [Samba] Windows 98 caching too much

2007-02-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tuesday 27 February 2007 00:58, Rashkae wrote: Daniel O'Connor wrote: I don't believe the person is modifying the file behind Samba's back. They're using Windows to edit the file so it should work fine. Then you'll have to explain this in more detail: however we find that if the file

Re: [Samba] Windows 98 caching too much

2007-02-26 Thread Rashkae
Daniel O'Connor wrote: They were modifying the file on the unix side behind Samba's back so of course the caching was a problem. I'm not sure why it didn't show up in XP systems though. Since your hosting this on BSD, which, to the best of my knowledge, doesn't support kernel oplocks,

Re: [Samba] Windows 98 caching too much

2007-02-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tuesday 27 February 2007 15:53, Rashkae wrote: course the caching was a problem. I'm not sure why it didn't show up in XP systems though. Since your hosting this on BSD, which, to the best of my knowledge, doesn't support kernel oplocks, you probably *really* want to disable those if

Re: [Samba] Windows 98 caching too much

2007-02-23 Thread Sherwood Botsford
Daniel O'Connor wrote: Hi, We have an old Win98 box at work that is used for programming GALs and EEPROMs, however we find that if the file is modified on the Unix side the Win98 box doesn't notice. This is rather annoying when you are iterating a design as you can imagine! One work around

Re: [Samba] Windows 98 caching too much

2007-02-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Saturday 24 February 2007 09:34, Sherwood Botsford wrote: May be silly, but does the window 98 box have the same idea of time that the samba server does? I've often seen 'make' issues with this over nfs, and I've seen the reverse where windows fusses when it thinks that some other program

Re: [Samba] Windows 98 caching too much

2007-02-23 Thread Rashkae
Daniel O'Connor wrote: Hi, We have an old Win98 box at work that is used for programming GALs and EEPROMs, however we find that if the file is modified on the Unix side the Win98 box doesn't notice. This is rather annoying when you are iterating a design as you can imagine! One work around

[Samba] Windows 98 caching too much

2007-02-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Hi, We have an old Win98 box at work that is used for programming GALs and EEPROMs, however we find that if the file is modified on the Unix side the Win98 box doesn't notice. This is rather annoying when you are iterating a design as you can imagine! One work around is to open a DOS box and