Re: CentOS5 and samba

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lhecking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Daniel Bird writes:
> [...] 
>> However, at the risk of being a pedant, that doesn't give us a 
>> explanation as to why the same setup on  CentOS & RHEL resulted in the 
>> behavior we experienced. NFS mounts are surely not that uncommon on 
>> samba servers and one would expect the locking mechanisms to cope with 
>> that scenario. It surely does on our old Solaris box. We will be 
>> investiaging this further since our migration is going to take a couple 
>> of months and like JD pointed out in a previous post the no locking 
>> option shouldn't be needed.
>  
>  I found these
>   http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-1984
>   http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2009-May/148403.html
>  and we're in the situation described (NetApp filer with no CIFS license).
> 
>  Investigating one of our sites with a working CentOS5 samba server shows
>  that they indeed have "posix locking = no" in smb.conf.
> 
>  The bit that is still unclear to me, however, is that RH apply this to all
>  of RHEL3,4,5, whereas we don't see this problem under RHEL3.
> 

What about the default options that have changed?  Have you tried setting them 
back to what worked with RHEL3?  Be sure you are running nfsv3, udp, etc.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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