On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 11:08:49AM +0200, steve wrote: > Hi > Lan with S4 and built-in file server for Windows clients. nfs for > Linux clients. > > We are using LibreOffice to share documents and file locking works > fine. The first guy to open the doc gets the lock and a message is > displayed on other clients (windows or Linux) that the file is open. > > Fine > > Some users must however use Word 2010 to edit documents. Then file > locking doesn't work: anyone can open it. Any combination of clients > and any combination of LO or Word. > > I'm told to turn off client oplocks: > > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\MRXSmb\Parameters > OplocksDisabled = 1 > > However, our win7 clients do not have \Parameters > > At HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services I see the folders: > > mrxsmb, mrxsmb10 and ,rxsmb20 > > opening any of them gives another folder called Enum with > > Default REG_SZ (value not set) > 0 REG_SZ Root\LEGACY_MRXSMB\0000 > Count REG_DWORD 0x00000001 (1) > NextInstance REG_DWORD 0x00000001 (1) > > Any ideas how to turn off oplocks? Or WHY.
Does this work (Word 2010 sees other opens) if you run the clients against an S3 server ? I'm guessing it will. The current recommended setup is to use S4 as an AD-DC, but S3 joined to the domain as a fileserver. The S3 fileserver code will replace the S4 fileserver before official S4 release. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba