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 -- /------------------------------------+-------------------------\ |Stephen J. Gowdy | CERN Office: 8-1-11| |http://cern.ch/gowdy/ | CH-1211 Geneva 23 | | | Switzerland | |EMail: [log in to unmask] | Tel: +41 76 487 2215 | \------------------------------------+-------------------------/