On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 01:42:50PM +0200, Dirk Kastens wrote: > the home directories of our users are NFS-mounted from a NetApp filer to > our samba server. Everthing was fine until the users installed the > service pack 3 for Windows XP on the client machines. Suddenly it was > impossible to write MS Office files on the samba share. Word or Excel > documents could only be opened in read-only mode. After de-installing > SP3 everything worked well again. > I found out that setting the samba option "posix locking = No" resolves > the problem. The manual page of smb.conf says: "You should never need to > disable this parameter." So I think this is only a temporary solution. > Microsoft must have changed something regarding the locking mechanism > inside the service pack. > Any ideas?
Well, re-export of NFS-imported directories is not recommended and one of the exceptions to "you should never..." :-) If you have NetApp installed, why re-export via Samba? License issues? Volker
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