I use slackware 7.1 and have hacked my smb.conf to pieces.. kinda
the best part about using samba is seeing ^M all over the place when you use
vi
but yeah I'll try that net command.. learn something new everyday...
-ryan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Sangeelee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 1:28 PM
Subject: Re: Refresh
> This is true, but it's possible to configure samba to cooperate nicely
> with it's native file system. I'm not at work at the moment so I can't
> check my files, but I think that rummaging around the docs on pessimistic
> locking gets you close to the issues. I'm currently running samba/tomcat
> on a RH6.2 box with more or less vanilla smb.conf, and it works perfectly.
> The only time I had to reconfigure sambas locking settings (on a different
> box) was when I needed a Unix program to detect write-locks held by a
> samba client.
>
> Kevin
>
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Craig R. McClanahan wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Ryan wrote:
> >
> > > Even so.. I've still had to 'touch' half the time. Though I access my
JSP
> > > code through windows via samba. Dunno if that has anything to do with
it.
> > >
> >
> > Yes, it absolutely does.
> >
> > Network file systems often cache directory information about the files
you
> > access, in order to avoid lots of network traffic. Thus, a file can be
> > changed on the Samba server (with an updated timestamp), and the Samba
> > client (i.e. the machine Tomcat is running on) does not know that.
> >
> > IMHO, running your webapps via a network file system (Windows shared
> > disks, Samba, Unix NFS, etc.) is not a good idea. You'd be much better
> > off (and have much better performance) if you moved Tomcat to where the
> > files are located, rather than the other way around.
>
