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- !== File-Cacheing.txt for Samba release 2.0.7 26 Apr 2000
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- Some people report problems with "cacheing" of data. Generally the bug report
- goes like this:
-
- - create a file on a unix box
- - view the file on a PC via Samba
- - change the file on the unix box
- - look at the file again on the PC via Samba and the changes are not visible
-
- The first thing to realise is that this is the expected behaviour! The SMB protocol
- uses a thing called "opportunistic locking". This allows the client to "safely"
- do client side cacheing of file data. The problem is that this cacheing is only
- safe if all programs access the files via SMB. As soon as you access the data
- via a non-SMB client then you will get data inconsistencies.
-
- There are two solutions. Firstly, Samba has added a kernel level
- interface that allows access from a UNIX client either via NFS
- or a local process to notify Samba to 'break' the oplock, and
- thus force the correct data to be seen. Currently the only UNIX
- operating system that supports this interface is SGI IRIX 6.5.3f
- and above. However, this interface is currently being discussed
- for inclusion in both Linux and FreeBSD, and some of the other
- UNIX vendors are also interested in supporting it.
-
- The second solution is to disable oplocks in smb.conf for those shares
- that need to be accessed simutaneously from unix and windows. See the
- "oplocks" and "veto oplock files" options in smb.conf(5). Unfortunately
- this will cause a speed penalty but with the non-kernel method this
- cannot be avoided if up to date data is required for files accessed
- from both Windows and UNIX.
-
- Two more data points :
-
- Samba-1.9.18 and later series supports oplocks.
- Samba-1.9.17 series does NOT.
-
- In addition, the following registry entries under MS Windows NT4 will
- turn off oplocks on a client. WARNING !!!! This is *NOT* recommended
- and will turn off oplocks for *all* servers aceessed from this client.
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- ===================================================================================
-
- [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanWorkstation\Paramete
- rs]
- "BufFilesDenyWrite"=dword:00000000
- "BufNamedPipes"=dword:00000000
- "UseOpportunisticLocking"=dword:00000000
- "DormantFileLimit"=dword:00000000
-
- [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanWorkstation\Paramete
- rs\Linkage]
- "UtilizeNtCaching"=dword:00000000
-
- [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Filesystem]
- "Win95TruncateExtensions"=dword:00000000
-
- [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanManServer\Parameters]
- "EnableOpLockForceClose"=dword:00000001
- "EnableOpLocks"=dword:00000000
-
-
- ==================================================================================
-
- The following registry entry does the same under Windows 9X also:
-
-
- [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\VREDIR]
- "DiscardCacheOnOpen"=string:00000001
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-