Hello, Recently, the following problem started happening with a particular samba server: If i have a file open for reading (say, a pdf in xpdf) and then try to write to it (say, through recompiling a latex document) it complains that it cannot open the file for writing.
this seems like a file lock issue but I am unsure where it is happening. My previous usage should be perfectly safe since xpdf should only open for reading. This problem does not happen locally or when I connect to a different samba server (a windows machine). I can also ssh into the remote server, port xpdf , and my local process can write to the file. It is the samba connection that is making the lock. I am running Debian Unstable, using smbclient/smbfs 3.0.28a-1 to connect to a samba server (unix backend) on my university network. Server: Samba3.0.10-1.4E I mount the smb share in my fstab as follows: //myserver/jyoung /mnt/uni smbfs credentials=credsfile,gid=jyoung,uid=jyoung,auto,rw I spoke with my system administrator and he said it may also be possible to get the server settings changed depending on what is required (and the implications). Thanks Jim -- James Young, B.Sc. Ph.D. Student Interactions laboratory, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 1N4 Phone: +1.403.210.9502 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~jyoung/<http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/%7Ejyoung/> -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba