Re: StarOffice Server on a LAN (Hetrogenous OS)

From: Pauline Middelink (middelink@polyware.nl)
Date: Wed Jan 17 2001 - 07:40:37 EST

On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 around 07:22:08 -0200, Jorge R . Csapo wrote:
> Apparently, Windows stations build internal caches of networked shares contents
> and uses SMB itself to keep the caches coherent. If a file is modified through
> a mechanism other than SMB (i.e. NFS), than the Windows stations which had
> previously accessed that file will refuse to update and the user will get the
> old version until s/he reboots.

You might want to look at the optimistic locking flags. They prevent
this kind of thing. Although disabling it tends to make things slower,
so I keep it on in my R/O and Windows-only shares.

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        Pauline Middelink 

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