Fredrik Ohrn wrote: > > On 1 Aug 2002, Mike Gerdts wrote: > > > This sounds like you have clocks out of sync. Be sure that the time on > > your workstation, the Samba server, and any NFS servers that Samba may > > get shares from all have clocks that are in sync. I highly suggest > > using NTP between all servers. Once you have NTP running on a unix > > server, you can convince win2k clients to sync with that server using: > > > > net time /setsntp:unixservername > > > > That was a good start, the client and server was 20 seconds out of sync. > > Now the "file changed outside editor" message is gone. I just tried the > same procedure on two XP boxes sharing files with their clocks out of > sync. The problem never surfaced. > > Is this a bug in samba that it cant handle out of sync clocks or is it > just not possible to do a better implementation? > > Also the "delayed write failed" doesn't happen right away as it did > before. Now I have to wait untill samba disconnects the drive due to > inactivity (as specified by deadtime). Stopping and restarting Visual > Studio cures it (untill the nex timeout).
As a basic rule, setting 'deadtime' is a bad idea. Is there any reason to set this paramater? Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student Network Administrator, Hawker College [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://samba.org http://build.samba.org http://hawkerc.net
