thunderbird, samba and file locking?

[Steve Flynn]

On Jan 9, 2008 12:20 PM, Kristian Rink <kristian at zimmer428.net> wrote:
>
> Folks;
>
> annoying. I know it's Thunderbird to blame because as soon as I do
> terminate the Thunderbird process that saved the attachment, the file
> may be deleted right away.
>
> Can anyone imagine ideas how to overcome this problems, be that Samba
> or Thunderbird configuration? I don't like the idea to generally
> disable locking in Samba as it seems a dangerous thing to do in a
> multi-user environment, but this situation right now is pretty
> uncomfortable...

Have you checked through the Tbird Bugzilla for this issue? The first
step would be to determine if this bug is present in the windows
version and thus is a problem with locking within the Tbird codebase
or a Samba "feature"...

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Steve
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