Just wanted you to know that this problem was solved by rebooting one of the nodes in our NFS fileservercluster. Since the user claimed one of his fellow-workers (with his home on the same node) was able to get locks on the fs I dismissed this cause earlier.
What have we learned today? :) /shoe > > > [2002/11/28 14:05:54, 0] locking/posix.c:(669) > > > an No locks available error. This can happen when using 64 bit lock > > > offsets > > > [2002/11/28 14:05:54, 0] locking/posix.c:(670) > > > on 32 bit NFS mounted file systems. > > > > Errr - I'd guess what's happening is what the error says :-). > > And when I added that message I thought it'd be very clear :-(. > > > > The kernel Samba is running on supports 64 bit fcntl locks, > > however the underlying (NFS) filesystem that the files are > > being shared from only supports 32 bit locks. Thus the lock > > request is being denied. > > > > If these files are only being accessed by Windows users (the > > usual case for MS-Office files, unless you have OpenOffice > > on IRIX) then you can turn off the mapping down to POSIX locking > > by setting the parameter "posix locking = False". No harm done. > > > > Jeremy. > > ;) It's not that I didn't understand what the message itself meant, just > that it worked a few days ago (or so I have been told :) and I haven't > made any changes in the system. > What could have been the source of this problem? The kernel has always > been 64bit on this machine, and the NFS(3) as far as I know is always 64bit > (XFS between two 64bit machines) so I just thought that since the err > message said "..can happen.." I thought it could have other causes to. > > If I set posix locking = False, what potential dangers do I face? Except > the obvious 'open one document from two locations' -issue. We don't use > any form of Office suite on IRIX (unforitently), but the files are > frequentlly used on the Unix side, via apache etc.. > > Thanks Jeremy! > > /shoe -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
