On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 04:37:58PM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote: > On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 12:32:14AM +0100, will ryder wrote: > > Hi, > > > > >From what i understand sharing an NFS mount via samba is not a good idea. > > Depends on whether the NFS locking works or not. > > > Is the any way to make this work with strict locks = yes ? > > Depends on whether the NFS locking works or not. > > > The NFS mount is on a NetApp filer, I cannot create users on the Netapp. > > therefore mounting via NFS allows me create users on a Linux machine. > > and manage the access to data. > > > > Any advice to maintain the data integrity would be helpful > > Don't access the same files at the same time from NFS and Samba.
If you have that (no concurrent NFS/CIFS access), please set "posix locking = no". This avoids quite some of the problems in that setup. Volker -- SerNet GmbH, Bahnhofsallee 1b, 37081 Göttingen phone: +49-551-370000-0, fax: +49-551-370000-9 AG Göttingen, HRB 2816, GF: Dr. Johannes Loxen -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
