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So should I be turning off "kernel oplocks" or "oplocks"? From your reply,
I'm gathering that the problem is with the client side (windows) and so I
should disable just the "oplocks" and leave "kernel oplocks" enabled?

On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Bill Moran wrote:

> On Thursday 20 September 2001 16:31, Trevin Chow wrote:
>
> > Does this indicate any problems that can be fixed?
>
> Yes.
> Consider turning oplocks off.  It's a M$ problem, not samba, many M$ clients
> don't handle oplocks properly.  Win95 is especially nasty with this, but I've
> heard (unconfirmed) rumors that the progeny of 95 (i.e. 98, ME, XP) have
> inherited those problems.
> Best bet, turn oplocks off totally on the samba server.  See the samba docs.
> The performance loss doesn't seem to be very noticable, unless
> you've got a lot of file-based databases on the server, in which case, consider
> setting up MySQL and putting ODBC on the clients - that works very nicely!
>
> --
> Bill Moran
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>


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