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.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison		Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
>> [log in to unmask]	http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna

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