Vista Offline Files Work!

[kboudre]

I have not. Still broke for me.

[markd]

I'm a relatively recent convert to the ReadyNAS (Duo in my case), but I did hit this problem with my previous storage solution (homebrew x86 NAS using Linux & Samba). As I haven't seen it mentioned here, I thought I would share the solution that left me with a working Windows 7/Offline Files environment.

In my case, prior to my upgrades to Win 7 I had one Vista and one XP client, both using Offline Files. The XP client just worked. The Vista client would occasionally leave Office temporary files lurking that caused sync conflicts but otherwise worked well enough (if a bit slow). This was using a 3.2x build of Samba.

I upgraded the Vista client to Win 7 Pro (gold) and Offline Files simply stopped working with the "The process cannot access the file..." message. I banged my head against several brick walls in the search for a solution - messing around with oplock settings and so on. Nothing helped.

The solution in my case was to upgrade to Samba 3.4.0 - not only did the problem go away immediately, but performance improved as well. Windows 7 and Samba 3.4 are supposed to play nicely together (see http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2009-August/066016.html)

I haven't looked yet at how practical it is to upgrade the Samba version on the Duo, but I assume that that is what is being worked on - as the root cause seems to be how pre-3.4 versions of Samba implemented some of the SMB calls I doubt it is fixable in the current version.

Cheers, Mark

[airwofl]

Have Windows 7 Ultimate here offline syncing as I type.

<Slight rant>
I do wish that homes was a configurable section under the Shares GUI piece because items like this could exist there and have rsync backups configurable through the GUI like the rest of the shares.
</Slight rant>

Add the line below to the [homes] section in /etc/samba/smb.conf, restart Samba and it worked for me (P.S. I'm using my Samba v3.3.7 addon with my NV+).

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oplocks = 1

Paul.

[airwofl]

Check my post here - I will compile 3.4.3 for the SPARC units and get an addon built to test the offline files issue.

Upon further offline file testing, the successful runs are rather hit and miss and the files having the in use by another process problem vary from run to run.

[markd]

See my post at http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=34663&p=192329#p192329

I think it is necessary to convert to the tdbpass backend as well - as long as RAIDator does not read or write smbpass directly then this should be ok I would think.

Also worth bearing in mind that my results on this were on the Samba Intel code (as this was in my pre-ReadyNAS days) rather than the Sparc code. They should, of course, be the same......

I'm happy to test a 3.4.3 build as and when you get the time (I certainly haven't been able to find any to do a build!)

Cheers, Mark.

[dwinokur]

I have enabled opslock both for public shares through FrontView and globally in /etc/samba/smb.conf. Offline file sync in Windows 7 Ultimate is now intermittent. Some files sync and are available offline and others fail with the same error, "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process." I'm wondering if the upgrade to Samba 3.4.x would solve the problem as suggested in this thread. I'm wondering if airwofl has had an opportunity to build this, or if there is any other way to get this newer version of Samba running on the ReadyNAS NV. Or, are there other possible solutions from the ReadyNAS team or other users?

[EdNewman]

Bump. Any news on this??? We have just put a ReadyNAs NVX into a branch office to act as a file server. We want 4 laptops to have one of the shares available off-line but get the normal "the process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process" message. All the laptop are running Windows 7 Ultimate and they are trying a sync a folder containing photos.

I would really like to get this working, otherwise I have a very expensive door stop.

Cheers,
Ed.

[BFG]

Same here. First laptop in the business to have Win7.


First attempt (without oplocks) in trying to make a folder in a share available to the clientmachine. Sync center listed every file in the share folder with:
"the process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process"

Switching Oplock on in the ReadyNas share fixed it.

[BFG]

Hmm. I spoke too soon. One share is fine, the next share gives a problem, even with oplocks switched on.

I hate it when anything exhibits two different behaviours with precisely the same settings.

[markd]

Have been testing the RAIDiator 4.1.7-T29 beta. This issue seems to be fixed, tested with Win 7 32- and 64-bit. Oplocks need to be turned on.

[Evil Olverlord]

Any news on this?

Lenovo X201s, Windows 7 Pro 32
ReadyNAS NV+

Offline files basically doesn't work. Last run (two small mapped drives) gave over 21,000 errors - all of the "file in use by another process" variety.

I have oplocks on. I see the last comment about using the 4.1.7 beta, but I'm leery of using a beta with critical data. Installing samba seems beyond my expertise. Any other solutions?

[kolz]

for windows 7, i gave on Netgear readynas .. i did anything and everything that the various forum entries said..

i know use SyncTool from MS. Works wonderful.... love the readynas but hate this offline issue

[Evil Olverlord]

for windows 7, i gave on Netgear readynas .. i did anything and everything that the various forum entries said.

Disappointing to hear. Especially disappointing since this seems to have gone on since Vista with no fix.

i know use SyncTool from MS. Works wonderful.... love the readynas but hate this offline issue

Do you mean the Sync function in Windows 7 itself (just not as Offline files; meaning you sync files to a specific folder on your Win 7 machine), or a different tool (what used to be MS Sync Toy 2 seems to have been folded into Win 7, but perhaps this is different)?