Hi Sascha, You nailed it... My problem is solved. I don't understand why that would be desired behavior, but regardless, it's fixed now.
Thank you very much, Cameron > I don't know what kind of programm you're running, but I had > nearly the problem. I solved it by turning of the oplocks for > this share. > > Try in the share: > > [C] > comment = C On Doveserver > path = /mnt/samba > public = yes > writable = yes > create mask = 0775 > inherit permissions = yes > oplocks = No > level2 oplocks = No > > Greetings > > Sascha > > Am Donnerstag, 25. M�rz 2004 17:35 schrieb Cameron B. Prince: > > Hi, > > > > I have a situation in the office where I temporarily need > to provide > > additional clients access to a share on a Windows 2000 > Professional box. > > 2000 Pro seems to only allow 5 clients to connect to a > share and there > > is no faclity to allow more as best I can tell. Upgrading > isn't really > > an option and as I said, this is a temporary need. > > > > I have a linux box as a gateway so I decided to map the > share from the > > windows box to it via smbmount, then reshare that mount via samba. > > Then I could point the extra clients to the linux box which would > > effectively be transparently be connecting them to the windows box. > > > > It works and works well, but I have hit one snag. > > > > Each client runs a program that creates files on the share. > A program > > is running on the windows box that scans this directory and > moves the > > files to another directory for processing. When clients connected > > directly to the windows share create the files, they are moved and > > everything works as intended. When clients connect to the windows > > share via linux create the files, the program on the > windows box crashes. > > > > I found that this is caused by the client maintaining a lock on the > > file after it's created. If I stop the program on the windows box, > > make the client create the file, shutdown the client, then > start the > > program on the windows box, everything is fine. > > > > I've also confirmed I can't move or rename the files manually until > > the client that created them is shutdown. > > > > What can I do to keep this lock from being maintained? > > > > > > Here's the line from fstab that mounts the share on the linux box: > > > > //doveserver/c /mnt/samba smbfs > > uid=500,gid=500,username=user1,password=user1,rw 0 0 > > > > User 500 is florist. > > > > Here's permissions on /mnt/samba: > > > > drwxr-xr-x 1 florist florist 4096 Mar 18 15:32 samba > > > > Here's the share definition from smb.conf: > > > > [C] > > comment = C On Doveserver > > path = /mnt/samba > > public = yes > > writable = yes > > create mask = 0775 > > inherit permissions = yes > > > > > > Any help or ideas would certainly be appreciated. > > > > Thank you, > > Cameron > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
