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
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
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
