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Title:PATHWORKS for OSF/1
Notice:see also NOTED::PWDOSWINV5 (PW client) & TURRIS::DIGITAL_UNIX
Moderator:CPEEDY::LONG
Created:Thu Apr 22 1993
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1874
Total number of notes:6870

1870.0. "file locking problem with NT3.51 & PW5.0gECO2" by PCTEAM::SYSTEM () Wed Jun 04 1997 10:54

    PW OSF 5.0g ECO 2  / UNIX 3.2       
    Clients NT3.51 Service PAK 5 and NT4.0 with Office 95 (7.0 Release)
    
    Customer connects O: to \\server\pccommon.
    On that share they store Excel 7.0 files and under
    unix you see three file locks like the following
    example:
    
    # net file
    ID         Path                                    Usernam      # Locks
    -----------------------------------------------------------------------
    3369       C:\USR\...\SHARES\PCCOMMON\TEST.XLS     NEUNTEUFL      3     
    The command completed successfully.
     
    If the customer than closes excel, these file locks don't dissapear
    and it is impossible to write to the spreadsheet-file again.
    
    Under NT 4.0 with the same office suite there are no problems with
    file locking.
    
    It seams that NT3.51 does different things than NT 4.0.
    
    Does someone know about lanman.ini parameters to influence file
    locking or is it a MS Problem ... ? - does it make sense to IPMT this?
    
    thanks
    Werner
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1870.1CPEEDY::HORGANCraicailte indiadh damhsa agus cricta�l!Wed Jun 04 1997 15:295
Hi Werner,

   What's in your lanman.ini file?  I don't see the locks being kept when you close Excel.

Julia
1870.2more info about locksPCTEAM::SYSTEMFri Jun 06 1997 06:0127
    lanman.ini:
    
    [ server ]
    userpath=/usr/net/servers/lanman/users
    srvservices=alerter,netlogon,replicator
    [ workstation ]
    domain=fza
    [ netlogon ]
    scripts=repl/export/scripts
    [ replicator ]
    replicate=export
    exportlist=fza
    [ lmxserver ]
    unixlocks=no
    ignoreunix=yes
    
    Customer uses office 7.0a.
    If he opens a spreadsheet (from pccommon), changes it and wants to 
    write it back (from NT3.51Client) he gets the error messsage
    "lanman redirector: cannot write file to buffer". - This message
    is translated from German.
    
    Customer told me that sometimes locks stay with the same ID and
    sometimes locks disappear correctly.
    
    thanks
    Werner