On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:48:52AM -0700, Philip Ong wrote: > > Hope this helps. > [Philip Ong] Thanks, yes, it does. I'm having a problem with being able to > copy a local > Windows file to NFS area shared by samba on WinXP. If I set "strict locking = > no", I'm > able to copy the file to the NFS area shared via samba. This seems to only > happen when > upgrading from a kernel.org kernel of 2.6.36.3 and higher. I've tried on > Centos 4.5 and > 5.6 and all seems to point to either kernel or samba mix (3.5.11 and 3.6). > I'd like to > know the damage setting "strict locking = no" could possibly cause especially > since I'm > not sure if I'd want to ignore mandatory locks. Is this going to be a big > problem? What > are considered mandatory locks?
Actually you probably do want to ignore mandatory locks :-). Is there another process accessing this file at the same time ? If there is, and that process has taken a POSIX/NFS lock out on the file, then "strict locking = yes" will conflict. More likely it's just an NFS bug in the locking code though :-). Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
