On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 05:38:20PM -0800, James Hurlburt wrote: > The thought was that the dos workstations would be unhappy with ntfs. > I may well have been wrong there. > > I found the key bit. For a share with multiple stations sharing dbf > files using CA clipper 5.2 as the program language, optlocks need to > be off. > > The part about clipper and dbf files may not be a specific part of my > problem, multiple stations attempting to share read/write acess > certainly is. > > We have half a dozen or so dbf files that are heavily shared between > perhaps 30 workstations. > Setting oplocks off made a huge difference. > > The online help seems to suggest the opposite-- that oplocks would be > a positive influence on multiple access useage, the chapter in the > docs that I finally found that explains it wasn't easy to find. I > didn't find it till someone else suggested this fix. When I searched > with that question in mind I found it.
oplocks should be a positive influence on access - but not multiple usage access. They work for one opener of a file. However, if clients work correctly they shouldn't have any detrimental effect for multiple openers, but if you found a fix that works, I'm just happy :-). Cheers, Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba