Hi Troy,
Sorry, its SL4.4. I have sellinux running in permissive mode.
There is nothing useful in either /var/log/messages or in the samba logs
we keep for each system that connects. There were some messages regarding 
oplocks. We tried various combinations of enabling and disabling oplocks, 
but this had no effect.
Eve

On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Troy Dawson wrote:

> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:30:47 -0500
> From: Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
> To: Eve V. E. Kovacs <[log in to unmask]>
> Cc: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: samba server + nfs
> 
> 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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