I am no expert on file locking. Oplocks allow the client to locally cache the document. The performance hit may not be a factor. The file is locked when someone is using it if the application supports file locking. MS word does, I doubt notepad does.
Joel On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 05:51:29PM +0100, Michael Paarmann wrote: > Thanks for your quick help. > > Hmm, performance. How drastic is the lost of performance if i disable > oplocks. And isn't it a problem, when i disable them and some tries to open > an already opened file? > > Michael > > > > > > At 11:41 26.01.2003 -0500, you wrote: > >Read about oplocks in the samba documentation. SWAT might be nice. > >Disable oplocks on your samba server, if you don't mind the performance hit. > >Oplocks are fine when they work, but a source of file corruption when they > >fail. > >"shutting down this smbd" just means that the daemon serving that connection > >is closing. This is good. > >Joel > > > >On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 05:27:21PM +0100, Michael Paarmann wrote: > > > Dear list! > > > > > > I'm very confused and it would be very nic, if someone can help me. > > > > > > I've installed a Sambaserver (2.2.3a) based on SuSE Linux 8.0. Nealy 40 > > > clients with Windows 98, Windows 2000 or Windows XP Pro are working with > > > this Samba. Now my problem: > > > Sometimes the client are crashing down and i see in /var/log/warn > > something > > > like: oplock_break: client failure in break - shutting down this smbd. > > > before they crash. > > > > > > I've searched Google and so on, but i haven't find an acceptable solution > > > for this. But i've seen, thatr a lot people have this problem too. > > > > > > So, does anyone have an answer or a tip ?! > > > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > > > Michael > >-- > >To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > >instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > > _______________________________________ > > squIT - Individuelle IT-L�sungen > > Michael Paarmann > Saturnweg 23 > D- 45478 M�lheim an der Ruhr > Fon: 02 08 / 77 87 56 3 > Mobil: 01 79 / 77 43 96 0 > Fax: 02 08 / 301 77 66 > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > M-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Web: http://www.squIT.de > ______________________________________ -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
