I just turned off op-locks on the shares which I was having problems with.
I have diplicated the particular program, so that only 4 w/s's are accessing each of 2 copies.
smb.conf attached. 4 w/s's running WShark2, 4 using 2a. these are softlinks to /mnt/iso/WShark2, and 2a, which are the mounts of 2 identical images.
These have to be mapped drives from the windows point-of-view, hence the individual shares, and the soft links. Would the soft links have any relevance ?. I did (from /mnt) ln -s iso/WShark2.

TIA
Shane

Joel Hammer wrote:

You say turning off oplocks doesn't change anything, but all your
error messages are oplock errors. What errors do you get with oplocks
turned off?

Joel
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 07:59:48PM +0000, Shane Kennedy wrote:

I have installed a small Limux box in my local primary school, in order to sahre CD iso images.
The system works fine, untill several w/s's concurrently access the same program , whereupon, we get spurious crashes. I have tried disableing op-locks, which seemed to help, but only slightly.
Any suggestions gratefully received.





[global]
workgroup = bsns
guest account = nobody
keep alive = 30
preserve case = yes
short preserve case = yes
case sensitive = no
#oplocks = yes
hosts allow = 179.208.0. 179.208.0.254
map to guest = bad password
log file = /var/log/smb.log

[cdrom]
comment = cdrom
directory = /mnt/cdrom
guest account = user
guest ok = yes
browseable = yes
read only = yes

[guest]
comment = SAMBA SHARE
directory = /mnt/iso
guest account = user
guest ok = yes
browseable = yes
read only = yes

[BAS]
comment = BAS
directory = /mnt/BAS
guest account = user
guest ok = yes
browseable = yes
read only = yes

[C_Enc]
comment = C_Enc
directory = /mnt/C_Enc
guest account = user
guest ok = yes
browseable = yes
read only = yes

[CRF]
comment = CRF
directory = /mnt/CRF
guest account = user
guest ok = yes
browseable = yes
read only = yes

[DataSweet]
comment = DataSweet
directory = /mnt/DataSweet
guest account = user
guest ok = yes
browseable = yes
read only = yes

[Dissap_1]
comment = Dissap_1
directory = /mnt/Dissap_1
guest account = user
guest ok = yes
browseable = yes
read only = yes

[Dissap_2]
comment = Dissap_2
directory = /mnt/Dissap_2
guest account = user
guest ok = yes
browseable = yes
read only = yes

[E_Atlas1]
comment = E_Atlas1
directory = /mnt/E_Atlas1
guest account = user
guest ok = yes
browseable = yes
read only = yes

[E_Atlasi]
comment = E_Atlasi
directory = /mnt/E_Atlasi
guest account = user
guest ok = yes
browseable = yes
read only = yes

[E_Quest]
comment = E_Quest
directory = /mnt/E_Quest
guest account = user
guest ok = yes
browseable = yes
read only = yes

[EasyBook]
comment = E_Atlasi
directory = /mnt/E_Atlasi
guest account = user
guest ok = yes
browseable = yes
read only = yes

[Egyptians]
comment = Egyptians
directory = /mnt/Egyptians
guest account = user
guest ok = yes
browseable = yes
read only = yes

[Encarta]
comment = Encarta
directory = /mnt/Encarta
guest account = user
guest ok = yes
browseable = yes
read only = yes

[Greeks]
comment = Greeks
directory = /mnt/Greeks
guest account = user
guest ok = yes
browseable = yes
read only = yes

[MAHB]
comment = MAHB
directory = /mnt/MAHB
guest account = user
guest ok = yes
browseable = yes
read only = yes

[M_Maths]
comment = M_Maths
directory = /mnt/M_Maths
guest account = user
guest ok = yes
browseable = yes
read only = yes

[MTS]
comment = MTS
directory = /mnt/MTS
guest account = user
guest ok = yes
browseable = yes
read only = yes

[NShark]
comment = NShark
directory = /mnt/NShark
guest account = user
guest ok = yes
oplocks = no
browseable = yes
read only = yes

[NSharka]
comment = NSharka
directory = /mnt/NSharka
guest account = user
guest ok = yes
oplocks = no
browseable = yes
read only = yes

[S_ClipArt]
comment = S_ClipSArt
directory = /mnt/S_ClipArt
guest account = user
guest ok = yes
browseable = yes
read only = yes

[Vikings]
comment = Vikings
directory = /mnt/Vikings
guest account = user
guest ok = yes
browseable = yes
read only = yes

[WITW]
comment = WITW
directory = /mnt/WITW
guest account = user
guest ok = yes
browseable = yes
read only = yes

[WShark2]
comment = WShark2
directory = /mnt/WShark2
guest account = user
guest ok = yes
oplocks = no
browseable = yes
read only = yes

[WShark2a]
comment = WShark2a
directory = /mnt/WShark2a
guest account = user
guest ok = yes
oplocks = no
browseable = yes
read only = yes
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