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Re: Samba and MS Access - locking problems

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From: Andrew Williams
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 00:00
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I can't remember what Samba level that boils down to, but some levels around
then had problems with Access.
Upgrade to 2.0.6 or even 2.0.7pre4 (the Win2k-update version)

(said he and went off on holiday for Easter)



Frank Halley wrote:

> Hello
>
> I am running RH6.0 and samba for file sharing.  My Access database (split
> front-end/back-end) is all on one Samba share (for initial test purposes).
> My Access System.mdw is on another Samba share.
>
> My default Samba file locking would not let more than one person use Access
> ("You have exceeded your limit of 255 simultaneous users!!").  When I
> disabled Samba file locking, it worked, but now two users can both open the
> same Word document on the Samba share - results could be a disaster!
>
> Access creates a lock file for the system.mdw and the database front-end
> mdb.  All users are in the same unix group, and all files are r/w group.
>
> Any advice on how to get this going properly?
>
> Frank Halley

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