On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 08:40:18AM -0800, Chris de Vidal wrote: > To answer the root question (people have been > answering your symptoms), no, Samba is not trash. > > Like you, we needed to migrate from NetWare. We had a > serious problem with an undocumented oplock issue > (search marc.theaimsgroup.com, for "How samba let us > down"): oplocks corrupt very large flat database files > which are being accessed by multiple clients. We > almost dropped Samba for good and went to NT but > couldn't get the replacement NT server up in time. By > then, we discovered that if we disabled all oplocks, > we got no more corruption. It's a good thing we got > it working in Samba, because apparently this is also a > problem in NT.
Indeed. Samba behaves identically to a Windows server w.r.t. oplocks. People migrating from NetWare to Samba get irritated by this, but often don't realise it's because of issues with the Windows SMB *client*, not the SMB server. The Windows NetWare client apparently was rather better written. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
