[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#428733: Coming back on this locking problem or samba with executables called from logon scripts

[Christian Perrier]

retitle 428733 Samba keeps locks on executable files when launched from logon scripts by Windows clients
tags 428733 moreinfo
thanks

Hello Arno,

While doing a mass bug triage of bugs in the samba package, I went on
the issue you reported in http://bugs.debian.org/428733, where
executable files launched from Windows during logon scripts were kept
locked by samba.

I went on your very very long smb.conf file and first piped it through
testparm so that only parameters that differ from the default settings
are kept. See attached file.

To narrow down this problem, I would first recommend you to drop the
following parameters unless you have a very good reason for having
them:

[global]
	smb ports = 139
	name resolve order = lmhosts hosts bcast
	deadtime = 10
	socket options = IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=8192 SO_RCVBUF=8192
	enhanced browsing = No
	strict locking = No
	dos filetime resolution = Yes

From discussions with Samba developers, tweaking those is generally
not recommended....whatever you may find on so-called well-informed
sites (the socket options, specifically)

I'd also like to know whether you still experience that problem and
are in position to do further testing. At the moment you reported the
problem, i was mostly ignored, unfortunately, after you provided a
very big level 10 debug log. 


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