Hi, I have the problem: Clients with W2K and Office 2k try to open a xls-file on a samba share. It worked fine until a few weeks ago. The few weeks because there were holidays, our clerks wern't working, but I did some maintenance on IT equipment (Yes: my fault! so I am in great distress. I did my best to convince the workers, they did something wrong, but they don't believe me, can You imagine?).
Now there are the following results possible (ordered by occurence): 1. Can open, but it takes a long time, can change, but cannot save, not even with a new name in the same folder or anywhere on the share, 2. Cannot open at all, Excel freezes (Maybe the same than 1, but it takes more time I can spare waiting for 3. Opens at once, You can change and save to the same file Number 3 was happening when I opened the file saved it to local HD-folder copied it with Explorer to a new directory on the samba share Then it worked once. Additional attempts produced 1 or 2. The copy on the local filesystem works fine. When I watched the account with "smbstatus | grep pid" I had the impression that when Excel tried to open there file there was first: one entry saying that the user had opened the desired file in DENY_NONE RW mode, second: there was a few seconds later the same entry as in first still present, but additionally a second one, saying the client had opened the same file in RO mode, and third: when excel was finally ready, showing the file and You were able to edit, the process for the client had a new ID, the old one was gone and there were no files open at all. It is the first time I tried to watch via smbstatus whats going on, so I do ot know, wether this behavior is normal or show something significant. Afterwards I have the following entries in samba.log.%m: [2004/08/26 17:18:33, 0] smbd/oplock.c:oplock_break(807) oplock_break: receive_smb timed out after 30 seconds. oplock_break failed for file sichLohnEHW/Controlling/km_kst.xls (dev = 3a00, inode = 1695812, file_id = 20). [2004/08/26 17:18:33, 0] smbd/oplock.c:oplock_break(879) oplock_break: client failure in oplock break in file sichLohnEHW/ Controlling/km_kst.xls [2004/08/26 17:19:35, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(887) gh571 (172.23.2.224) closed connection to service EHWLohn [2004/08/26 17:19:35, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(887) gh571 (172.23.2.224) closed connection to service cdrom2 [2004/08/26 17:19:35, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(887) gh571 (172.23.2.224) closed connection to service stahle [2004/08/26 17:19:35, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(887) gh571 (172.23.2.224) closed connection to service hne2_unix1 [2004/08/26 17:19:35, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(887) gh571 (172.23.2.224) closed connection to service Marktplatz [2004/08/26 17:19:35, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(887) gh571 (172.23.2.224) closed connection to service Marktplatz [2004/08/26 17:19:35, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(887) gh571 (172.23.2.224) closed connection to service EHWLohn [2004/08/26 17:19:36, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(705) gh571 (172.23.2.224) connect to service EHWLohn initially as user klaus (uid=510, gid=109) (pid 14179) [2004/08/26 17:19:36, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(705) The files are located directly on the samba-server, a lvm-volume I increased from 100GB to 250GB, there are odbc-connections in this xls-files to txt-based datas on a nfs-volume from an DEC/OSF1 ( yes, a little bit in the ages). But I tried to copy the data-files to the samba server, but there was no change. I use SuSE 8.1 professional, samba 3.01, this is unchanged since several month, to clients I did the latest MS - update for win2k. I also connected the clients to the domain, my samba is master controller. My smb.conf (partially): ; [global] workgroup = xyz guest account = nobody server string = xyz4 ; keep alive = 20 os level = 64 kernel oplocks = no security = user hide dot files = yes domain master = yes prefered master = yes local master = yes dos charset = 850 add user script = /usr/sbin/addsmbuser.sh %u add group script = /usr/sbin/smbgradd.sh %g add printer command = /usr/bin/addprinter.sh log level = 1 log file = /usr/local/samba/var/samba.log.%m max log size = 50 encrypt passwords = yes printing = LPRNG printcap name = /etc/printcap load printers = yes printer admin = @ntadmin socket options = SO_KEEPALIVE IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY map to guest = Bad User interfaces = 192.168.1.4/255.255.255.0 wins support = yes name resolve order = hosts wins bcast dns proxy = yes logon script =%U.bat domain logons = yes [netlogon] path = /var/lib/samba/netlogon browseable = no read only = yes public = no [homes] comment = Heimatverzeichnis browseable = no read only = no create mode = 0750 veto files = /.*/ >>>>>>>>The share with the problems on<<<<<<<<<< [EHWLohn] comment = Lohn-Buchhaltung path = /share/Lohn/ehwlohn browseable = no read only = no public = yes create mode = 0660 directory mode = 0775 force group = Lohn mit freundlichen Grüßen Martin Schmidt Tel: 09843/988095 Fax: 09843/988096 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba