From: Freaky <fre...@bananateam.nl> Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:27:54 +0200
> we have a customer with some old Windows 98 stuff. The > network has been migrated to a 2008 domain and Windows 98 won't > authenticate (and thus can not access shares, also all computer names > (DC's / fileservers) are longer than 8 characters). > > Figured I would > mount the shares on the fileservers on a linux box (ubuntu 10.04 LTS 64 > bit server) and then export them again through Samba. > > this seemed to operate fine, unfortunately it does not. Several piece of > ancient software (that'll cost several millions to replace :() use an > access database (.mdb file). When accessed through the linux share and > anything else writes to it at the same time (be it going directly to the > share or through the linux box resharing them (not all boxes accessing > it run 98, there's also NT4, 2000 and XP boxes which all can connect to > the shares directly w/o issues)) the database will get corrupted. Though I can not examine in my environment now, the following settings may help you... > strict allocate = No > strict sync = No > sync always = No > strict locking = Auto Set them to yes. > oplocks = Yes > level2 oplocks = Yes Set them to no. > allocation roundup size = 1048576 Set it to 0. --- TAKAHASHI Motonobu <mo...@samba.gr.jp> -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
