From: Greg Ercolano <erco@(email surpressed)>
Subject: Re: RESOLVED: Re: ERROR: can't create log: //FILE/path/name: No such
   Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 12:57:13 -0800

Jeff Yana wrote:

Not sure what cleared this problem up but my suspicion is that the artist has assigned an incorrect path to the imagedir. Why this caused the cannot create log file error is beyond me. Any thoughts anyone?

	Sounds like shadowy file server stuff.. possibly old data being
	cached on this one machine, either an old scene file, or a bad
	cached interpretation of the directory.

	This might put suspicion on the file server's configuration of
	opportunistic locking.

	I've seen eg. Samba servers have trouble with op locks, for instance
	on my own network I have oplocks turned off to prevent clients caching
	incorrectly:

--- snip: smb.conf excerpt

# DISABLE OPLOCKS TO ALLOW UNIX AND NT TO ALTER SERVER DATA
#    If no: clients won't cache, but will stay in sync
#    If yes: clients cache, but out of sync with unix
#
oplocks = no

--- snip

	Without that setting, my windows machines would often not see
	changes made to files from other machines. I've seen this at
	other companies too; disabling oplocks usually fixes it.

	If it happens again, troubleshoot from the DOS prompt directly
	at the machine having the problem. Do it quickly, since if it
	is a caching problem, it may mysteriously 'solve itself' when
	the cache expires.

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