Hi Eve,
Is this SL4 or SL5?
If this is SL5, I'm betting it's SELinux, and can probrubly be fixed quite 
easily while keeping SELinux on.

Either way, what does it say on /var/log/messages on the samba server?

Troy

Eve V. E. Kovacs wrote:
> Hi,
> We are having a problem with our samba server. We are serving shares that
> contain symbolic links to directories on filesystems that are nfs 
> mounted to the server. In the past, these directories have been visible 
> and accessible via samba services. This is no longer true.
> 
> As of a few days ago we noticed that when we try to access one of the 
> files in these nfs mounted directories, the application trying to do the 
> access hangs. For example, on the windows side, Explorer will hang if 
> you try to open a file in one of these symlinked directories. If I run 
> smbclient on a linux client, a similar thing happens. smbclient
> gives the error
> Error Call timed out: server did not respond after 20000 milliseconds 
> closing remote file
> (0.0 kb/s) (average 0.0 kb/s)
> At this point you have to exit smbclient and start over.
> 
> This only happens on directories that are nfs mounted to the server.
> Other symlinks are fine.
> 
> Has anyone else seen this?
> I have done some googling and haven't found anything useful.
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> Eve
> 


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