Re: [CentOS] CentOS5 and samba

2010-04-19 Thread Ian Kaufman
> From: Daniel Bird > > Setting locking = No in the globals of smb.conf > > fixed it. > > Keep in mind that: > "Be careful about disabling locking either globally or in a specific > service, as lack of locking may result in data corruption. You > should never need to set this parameter." > > Try

Re: [CentOS] CentOS5 and samba

2010-04-19 Thread Les Mikesell
lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: > Daniel Bird writes: > [...] >> However, at the risk of being a pedant, that doesn't give us a >> explanation as to why the same setup on CentOS & RHEL resulted in the >> behavior we experienced. NFS mounts are surely not that uncommon on >> samba servers

Re: [CentOS] CentOS5 and samba

2010-04-19 Thread lhecking
Daniel Bird writes: [...] > However, at the risk of being a pedant, that doesn't give us a > explanation as to why the same setup on CentOS & RHEL resulted in the > behavior we experienced. NFS mounts are surely not that uncommon on > samba servers and one would expect the locking mechanisms t

Re: [CentOS] CentOS5 and samba

2010-04-19 Thread RedShift
On 04/16/10 15:00, lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: > We're trying to migrate RHEL3 and CentOS4 based samba servers over to > CentOS5, > but it's a bleeding disaster. We cannot get it to work reliably with any > version of CentOS5, i386 or x86_64, the included 3.0.x version of samba or

Re: [CentOS] CentOS5 and samba

2010-04-17 Thread Daniel Bird
> Can't you samba-export at the source instead of the nfs mount? Even if it > works > it seems like an inefficient way to do things. > Yes, that makes perfect sense and thats the second stage of our migration from the old E450 Solaris 8 box (which hosted everything via a single samba inst

Re: [CentOS] CentOS5 and samba

2010-04-17 Thread Les Mikesell
Daniel Bird wrote: > On 04/16/2010 04:23 PM, John Doe wrote: >> From: Daniel Bird >> >>> Setting locking = No in the globals of smb.conf >>> fixed it. >>> >> Keep in mind that: >> "Be careful about disabling locking either globally or in a specific >> service, as lack of locking may res

Re: [CentOS] CentOS5 and samba

2010-04-17 Thread Daniel Bird
On 04/16/2010 04:23 PM, John Doe wrote: > From: Daniel Bird > >> Setting locking = No in the globals of smb.conf >> fixed it. >> > Keep in mind that: > "Be careful about disabling locking either globally or in a specific > service, as lack of locking may result in data corruption. You >

Re: [CentOS] CentOS5 and samba

2010-04-16 Thread John Doe
From: Daniel Bird > Setting locking = No in the globals of smb.conf > fixed it. Keep in mind that: "Be careful about disabling locking either globally or in a specific service, as lack of locking may result in data corruption. You should never need to set this parameter." JD

Re: [CentOS] CentOS5 and samba

2010-04-16 Thread Chan Chung Hang Christopher
Brian Sr wrote: > On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 14:29 +0100, lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: >>> Here's a question: are you using your old configuration files? You might >>> want to compare the default from the install with the old ones - there may >>> be deprecated or defunct or invalid options. >>

Re: [CentOS] CentOS5 and samba

2010-04-16 Thread Niki Kovacs
Christoph Maser a écrit : >> We're trying to migrate RHEL3 and CentOS4 based samba servers over to >> CentOS5, >> but it's a bleeding disaster. We cannot get it to work reliably with any >> version of CentOS5, i386 or x86_64, the included 3.0.x version of samba or >> 3.4.x/3.5.x compiled from

Re: [CentOS] CentOS5 and samba

2010-04-16 Thread Daniel Bird
On 16/04/2010 14:00, lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: > We're trying to migrate RHEL3 and CentOS4 based samba servers over to > CentOS5, > but it's a bleeding disaster. We cannot get it to work reliably with any > version of CentOS5, i386 or x86_64, the included 3.0.x version of samba o

Re: [CentOS] CentOS5 and samba

2010-04-16 Thread John Doe
From: "lheck...@users.sourceforge.net" > The symptoms are: read access is extremely slow, write access > seems to work in principle (e.g. creating a zeros-sized file on > a share), but writing even small files (100k) to the share eventually > times out with "out of memory or disk space" errors.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS5 and samba

2010-04-16 Thread Brian Sr
On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 14:29 +0100, lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: > > Here's a question: are you using your old configuration files? You might > > want to compare the default from the install with the old ones - there may > > be deprecated or defunct or invalid options. > > Have used the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS5 and samba

2010-04-16 Thread lhecking
> Here's a question: are you using your old configuration files? You might > want to compare the default from the install with the old ones - there may > be deprecated or defunct or invalid options. Have used the same smb.conf for years on RHEL3 while moving from 3.0.x to 3.[2-4].x. ---

Re: [CentOS] CentOS5 and samba

2010-04-16 Thread m . roth
Someone wrote: > > We're trying to migrate RHEL3 and CentOS4 based samba servers over to > CentOS5, but it's a bleeding disaster. We cannot get it to work reliably > with any version of CentOS5, i386 or x86_64, the included 3.0.x version > of samba or 3.4.x/3.5.x compiled from source. Here's a q

Re: [CentOS] CentOS5 and samba

2010-04-16 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Freitag, den 16.04.2010, 15:00 +0200 schrieb lheck...@users.sourceforge.net: > We're trying to migrate RHEL3 and CentOS4 based samba servers over to CentOS5, > but it's a bleeding disaster. We cannot get it to work reliably with any > version of CentOS5, i386 or x86_64, the included 3.0.x vers