On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 02:24:10PM -0800, Kathy wrote: > I wanted to post again with the results of using Samba 3.2.8. Looks > like this did not solve our "locking" problem. We are still getting > permission denied errors when we try to do a "mv" of a log file inside > a Clearcase view via a Samba share to a different location. Again, > this is inside a Cygwin window on a WindowsXP virtual machine. It is > referencing a Clearcase dynamic view via Samba on > //server/<view_name>. It does not matter if you try to move it to > another Clearcase view (i.e. //server/views/<ccase_view_name/<dir>) or > if you try to move it to a Windows share or even to the local drive. > Below is a snippet of what the Samba log shows when these two files > can't be moved. ProcessExplorer program on the Windows XP machine did > not show file handle holding on to either of these files. Smbstatus > on the RHEL 5.2 Clearcase/Samba server reported NONE for oplocks, > WRONLY for R/W, and DENY_NONE on DenyMode. > > We are now running new tests where the scripts are writing the logs to > a Samba share, but not to a share that is also a Clearcase view. And > if we still have issues we are going to then have the logs write to a > local drive, leaving Samba completely out of it for the part of > writing logs. (They will still be inside the CC view via Samba when > firing off their scripts.)
The test to run is to store the data on any recent Windows, just for a test. If that also fails, Clearcase is broken, you will need to file a bug with the vendor of Clearcase. If that works, we need network traces of Samba vs Windows as a server and fix Samba. Volker
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