> Suddenly in the past week we have been having users who share excel > files via our Samba complain that the file has become corrupt, and also > some database files (Orcad .tdb database files). Fortunately there has > in each instance been a good copy in the .recycler... so far. > I came across some docs and threads in the net about oplocks. I did find > an error in the samba log: > [2008/04/14 10:19:05, 0] smbd/oplock.c:oplock_timeout_handler(351)
Were there any other adjacent messages relating to the lock? I'd suspect a basic network problem before I suspected Samba's locking. > and there are some other errors that have been in the logs for a long > time that we've been ignoring (because we were ignorant & nobody > complained of any problems) > Apr 13 07:14:04 aa-samba smbd[10083]: [2008/04/13 07:14:04, 0] > lib/util_sock.c:get_peer_addr(1229) > Apr 13 07:14:04 aa-samba smbd[10083]: getpeername failed. Error was > Transport endpoint is not connected > Apr 13 07:14:04 aa-samba smbd[10083]: [2008/04/13 07:14:04, 0] > lib/util_sock.c:write_data(562) > Apr 13 07:14:04 aa-samba smbd[10083]: write_data: write failure in > writing to client 192.168.1.46. Error Connection reset by peer > Apr 13 07:14:04 aa-samba smbd[10083]: [2008/04/13 07:14:04, 0] > lib/util_sock.c:send_smb(769) > Apr 13 07:14:04 aa-samba smbd[10083]: Error writing 4 bytes to client. > -1. (Connection reset by peer) These errors are meaningless 99.999% of the time. Lots of discussion of these in the list archives. > Should we add a line disabling oplocks in smb.conf, and if so, what > would be the recommended approach? No, I think it is premature [given just this information] to blame Samba or oplocks. I'd root around in dmesg and the interface counters first. And make sure you don't have a dying disk (is PFA enabled, if so has it flipped?). -- Consonance: an Open Source .NET OpenGroupware client. Contact:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://freshmeat.net/projects/consonance/ -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba