Hi Devin,
Wouldn't it be best to run SAMBA on the machines that actually
have the disks?
regards,
Stephen.
On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Devin Bougie wrote:
On Feb 3, 2009, at 4:10 PM, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Devin Bougie wrote:
Hi, All. We are using samba on an SL5.2 server to share filesystems with
our Windows systems. Everything works properly when sharing a filesystem
that is local to the samba server. When sharing an nfs filesystem,
however, we see locking issues with *some* file types.
Which kernel are you using on the *NFS* server ?
We had NFS locking issues with the kernel shipped with SL5.2
and some of the updates.
We don't seem to get them with 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5
It may be that your macs don't see the problem because they are
being less picky with the locks.
We see the same problem with all of the NFS shares we've tried, and none of
the NFS servers are running SL5. One is Solaris 10, one is SL4 with the
2.6.9-67.0.1.ELsmp kernel, and several are SL3 with the 2.4.21-37.EL.XFSsmp
kernel.
If anyone else is serving nfs shares over samba on SL5 and isn't seeing this
problem, I would be very grateful for a glimpse of your smb.conf file. If
anyone is curious, I would be happy to provide ours.
Many thanks for the reply,
Devin
For us the broken locking made mutt very unhappy with an NFS
mounted /var/spool/mail but we found no problems with pine.
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