[ale] question about SAMBA and a windows program called ACT

[Benjie Godfrey]

You will need to turn off opportunistic locking for the samba share that
has the ACT database file on it.  If you don't, you will eventually end
up with a corrupt ACT file.  I have seen that happen many times with ACT
and M$ Access.  Look for "oplocks" in the smb.conf man page.  You can
also google ACT + oplock for examples on how others have done this.

I think in samba 3 you may also have the ability to specify or veto
which files are exempt from oplocks based on regular expressions ( i.e.
veto oplock = *.mdb)

bye the way, are there anymore spare gmail invites up for grabs?

Benjie 
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--Thomas Paine


James B. Godfrey
Systems Administrator
Layton Graphics, Inc.
Marietta, Georgia, USA
www.layton-graphics.com