[WBEL-users] Samba Issues

[Jan-Albert van Ree]

On Friday 16 April 2004 17:57, Scott Heisler wrote:
> I have a WBEL30 server in place.  It replaced dieing RH 8 server. 
> Anyway, the here's the issue:
>
> RH8 had Samba 2.x, WB has Samba 3.x
> The server I replaced only serves one purpose, it hosts the files used
> (data & program files shared) for the time clock software (used for
> payroll).  It does not do anything other than this (no printing, ftp,
> etc).
> On the old server (RH8) there were no issues or problems.
> Now, on the WBEL, I have issues where the time clock software can't
> replace files.  It can write new ones all day long but can't replace
> files while in the software.  If I use MS Word, though, I can overwrite
> files all day long. I can brose to the location and rename & delete
> files, without problem. Why, just inside this application, does this
> occur.
>
> As a further test, I copied the entire file set (3.6 gig) to a Windows
> 2000 server as a test.  The problem did not occur there, only on the WBEL
> machine.  I went through all of the possible settings under Webmin and
> Swat and couldn't find anything that should be a problem.  I also went
> through the security from SSH and re-applied a 777 security setting to
> all files and made sure Samba had full access as well.

I recently ran into big issues with a samba share our timeclock software 
(part of a larger EHP system) was using (it's based on Extended System's 
Advantage database technology)

The solution for me was to add an "oplocks = false" option to the 
particulair share. Somehow sometimes two clients tried accessing a certain 
file at the same time and the windows machine(s) couldn't get valid file 
locks it seemed and thus dropped with various (non-indicative) errors.
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