Hi. That's my fault. For performance reasons, I changed the default Samba/VMS option for "oplocks" to "No".
I must admit I don't clearly understand what those oplocks are and what they are supposed to do. I just saw that when enabled, they add activity of IP messages between the smbd processes on the VMS server, and the overall performance is worst. I know that the Samba documentation claims that "The oplock code can dramatically (approx. 30% or more) improve the speed of access to files on Samba servers". In my experience, it may be true on Unix, but it's not true on VMS. If I'd known better, I would have changed the "level2 oplocks" default to "No" too, in order to avoid the warnings in TESTPARM. I'll do it for the next release. PLEASE READ THIS IMPORTANT ETIQUETTE MESSAGE BEFORE POSTING: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
