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  From: Steve Sloan <steve@lansol.com.au>
  To  : Richard Sharpe" <sharpe@ns.aus.com>, <sharpe@ns.aus.com>
  Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 15:39:07 +0930

Re: Arev

It looks like oplocks might be the problem. I turned them off on the dbase
share and both workstations logged OK. Havn't tryed it under any load yet
but so far so good.

Steve Sloan
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Sharpe <sharpe@ns.aus.com>
To: LinuxSA@linuxsa.org.au <LinuxSA@linuxsa.org.au>
Date: Wednesday, 16 June 1999 21:27
Subject: Re: Arev


>Hi,
>
>At 08:39 PM 6/16/99 +0930, Steve Sloan <steve@lansol.com.au> wrote:
>>HELP!!!
>>
>>I have just finished setting up a new RH6 server with samba and everything
>>was going great until will tried to run a Advanced Revelations dbase from
>>the server. With one use logged into the Arev program there was no problem
>>but when the second logged in and try to access the same menu they were
>>locked out. If the first logged out the second could login etc. The
>>programmer seems to think that it is a Unix record locking problem as it
was
>>running fine!!! (apart from all the crashes) on Win95 workgroup. The
>>programmer has no experience with Linux and couldn't help me. Has anyone
had
>>any experience with Arev apps and samba.
>
>Hmmm, Which version of Samba are you using? Recent versions (since about
>1.9.18p4 or so) have OpLock support, and it is on by default.
>
>However, I have seen problems where programs do not understand or like
>OpLocks. This seems especially relevant if you say it worked under a Win95
>workgroup. WinNT has OpLock support, Win95 does not.
>
>So, try to add "oplocks = no" in the share that has the AREV db.
>
>>Steve Sloan
>>
>>PS the workstations run Win95 with a map to the exported drive on the
server
>>where the entire Arev program lives.
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>
>Regards
>-------
>Richard Sharpe, sharpe@ns.aus.com, NS Computer Software and Services P/L,
>Samba (Team member www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member www.zing.org)
>Co-author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
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