Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 15:19:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Trevin Chow <tmchow@sfu.ca> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Flaky samba server Message-ID: <20010920151832.K50708-100000@benny.geektank.org> In-Reply-To: <01092018014600.01333@proxy.the-i-pa.com>
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So should I be turning off "kernel oplocks" or "oplocks"? From your reply, I'm gathering that the problem is with the client side (windows) and so I should disable just the "oplocks" and leave "kernel oplocks" enabled? On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Bill Moran wrote: > On Thursday 20 September 2001 16:31, Trevin Chow wrote: > > > Does this indicate any problems that can be fixed? > > Yes. > Consider turning oplocks off. It's a M$ problem, not samba, many M$ clients > don't handle oplocks properly. Win95 is especially nasty with this, but I've > heard (unconfirmed) rumors that the progeny of 95 (i.e. 98, ME, XP) have > inherited those problems. > Best bet, turn oplocks off totally on the samba server. See the samba docs. > The performance loss doesn't seem to be very noticable, unless > you've got a lot of file-based databases on the server, in which case, consider > setting up MySQL and putting ODBC on the clients - that works very nicely! > > -- > Bill Moran > Potential Technology technical services > (412) 793-4257 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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