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Date:      Thu, 20 Sep 2001 18:01:46 -0400
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com>
To:        Trevin Chow <tmchow@sfu.ca>, <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Flaky samba server
Message-ID:  <01092018014600.01333@proxy.the-i-pa.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010920132912.W50413-100000@benny.geektank.org>
References:  <20010920132912.W50413-100000@benny.geektank.org>

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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

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