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  From: Steve Sloan <steve@lansol.com.au>
  To  : Steve Sloan" <steve@lansol.com.au>, "Richard Sharpe" <sharpe@ns.aus.com>, <steve@lansol.com.au>
  Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 20:11:40 +0930

Re: Arev

Looks like I spoke too soon. The latest problem is that the Dbase is loosing
it'ss index files. I can reindex the files OK but they keep coming up with
errors and lock the users out. The problem appear to happen even when I
limit the site to one user on the Dbase at a time. This site also runs
another Windows Dbase (not sure what drives it) and it lost a link file of
some description which we are attempting to rebuild. I have turned the
Oplocks off on both these shares and also set

Ole locking compatibility = no

to see what would happen, didn't seem to have any effect. This is starting
to become quite frustrating for myself and the uses and if I can't find an
answer soon I might have to look at another solution, which would be a
crying shame. The Arev programmers are quite keen to get this working but
don't have any experience with Linux as most of their bigger sites run on
Novel and some on Windows NT server.

The Samba version I am running is 2.0.3

Steve Sloan
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Sloan <steve@lansol.com.au>
To: Richard Sharpe <sharpe@ns.aus.com>; LinuxSA@linuxsa.org.au
<LinuxSA@linuxsa.org.au>
Date: Sunday, 20 June 1999 15:39
Subject: 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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