Hi, Im running XP SP3 here on samba 2.0.24 and 2.0.28 and no problems here.
Louis >-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- >Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens >Dirk Kastens >Verzonden: vrijdag 6 juni 2008 13:43 >Aan: [email protected] >Onderwerp: [Samba] XP SP3 and posix locking > >Hi, > >the home directories of our users are NFS-mounted from a >NetApp filer to >our samba server. Everthing was fine until the users installed the >service pack 3 for Windows XP on the client machines. Suddenly it was >impossible to write MS Office files on the samba share. Word or Excel >documents could only be opened in read-only mode. After de-installing >SP3 everything worked well again. >I found out that setting the samba option "posix locking = No" >resolves >the problem. The manual page of smb.conf says: "You should >never need to >disable this parameter." So I think this is only a temporary solution. >Microsoft must have changed something regarding the locking mechanism >inside the service pack. >Any ideas? > >Our samba environment: >Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.2 (Tikanga) >Kernel 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 >Samba 3.0.30 > >Regards, > >Dirk Kastens >-- >To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the >instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
