Re: [Samba] Samba Serving NFS Mounted Directories

2010-01-25 Thread Jon Forrest
On 1/23/2010 5:19 AM, Nicholas Brealey wrote: The Sun 7310 is a storage appliance. It is not running Solaris 10 but runs an OS based on Open Solaris with CIFS and Windows style authentication integrated in the kernel. I lied a little. I do know how to login to this box, but that's only because

Re: [Samba] Samba Serving NFS Mounted Directories

2010-01-25 Thread Jon Forrest
On 1/23/2010 12:48 AM, Volker Lendecke wrote: You need to get over that. Running Samba on NFS imports is a really bad idea. At least every month people report strange lockups, timeouts and other weird things on this list that can be attributed to NFS imports. I'm not doubting that what you

Re: [Samba] Samba Serving NFS Mounted Directories

2010-01-25 Thread Jon Forrest
On 1/22/2010 5:00 PM, Ray Van Dolson wrote: First of all, you really don't want to re-export NFS mounts via Samba. I can't argue with this since I've felt the pain. However, I still can't say that I understand its fundamental cause. Here's my current understanding. Assuming that network

Re: [Samba] Samba Serving NFS Mounted Directories

2010-01-25 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Jon, Du meintest am 25.01.10: First of all, you really don't want to re-export NFS mounts via Samba. I can't argue with this since I've felt the pain. I have tried it (NFS mount as share). Sometimes it run, sometimes it creeped, sometimes it was dead. All oplocks were set as

Re: [Samba] Samba Serving NFS Mounted Directories

2010-01-24 Thread Volker Lendecke
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:33:36AM -0800, Jon Forrest wrote: So, I'll restate the question - what is it about NFS exports that gives Samba trouble that doesn't occur when serving local files? Mostly it is locking problems. Some daemons not started, daemons not 100% working right, etc. Then it

Re: [Samba] Samba Serving NFS Mounted Directories

2010-01-23 Thread Volker Lendecke
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 04:49:33PM -0800, Jon Forrest wrote: I have a Sun 7310 storage server. This is running Solaris 10 but it's self-contained and I can't login to it or run Samba on it. I manage it with a web interface. You need to get over that. Running Samba on NFS imports is a really

Re: [Samba] Samba Serving NFS Mounted Directories

2010-01-23 Thread Nicholas Brealey
The Sun 7310 is a storage appliance. It is not running Solaris 10 but runs an OS based on Open Solaris with CIFS and Windows style authentication integrated in the kernel. Installing Samba is not an option. You really should be using the integrated CIFs server. It is probably simpler to set up

[Samba] Samba Serving NFS Mounted Directories

2010-01-22 Thread Jon Forrest
I have a Sun 7310 storage server. This is running Solaris 10 but it's self-contained and I can't login to it or run Samba on it. I manage it with a web interface. I have a CentOS 5.3 machine that mounts a bunch of file systems via NFS from the Sun server. This works fine. I installed Samba 3.4.5

Re: [Samba] Samba Serving NFS Mounted Directories

2010-01-22 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 04:49:33PM -0800, Jon Forrest wrote: I have a Sun 7310 storage server. This is running Solaris 10 but it's self-contained and I can't login to it or run Samba on it. I manage it with a web interface. I have a CentOS 5.3 machine that mounts a bunch of file systems